1999 4cyl 2.5 JT
My son was pushing it hard on the freeway 70-75mph and noticed smoke from under the hood. Pulled over and opened the hood to see coolant everywhere. I had it towed home and went back to work. My neighbor (youtube mechanic) took a look at it while I was at work and said it looked like oil in the radiator, "blown head gasket." When I came home and checked the oil dipstick, the oil looks perfect, the transmission dipstick look great although a little overfilled. Took the cap off the radiator and I see no oil but what looks like very dirty coolant and lots of small particles (maybe metal, and pebbles/rocks?). literally it looks like there are little rock chunks or something in there and the overflow bottle. Cant tell where the coolant spewed from but was thinking of doing the following:
flush the radiator until it looks clean, refill and do a pressure test to see if it has sprung a leak, check hoses and cap, replace if necessary.
Any thoughts? Should have taken a picture but can tonight if it helps. I also should have looked at the oil cap nut will also take care of that tonight.
My son was pushing it hard on the freeway 70-75mph and noticed smoke from under the hood. Pulled over and opened the hood to see coolant everywhere. I had it towed home and went back to work. My neighbor (youtube mechanic) took a look at it while I was at work and said it looked like oil in the radiator, "blown head gasket." When I came home and checked the oil dipstick, the oil looks perfect, the transmission dipstick look great although a little overfilled. Took the cap off the radiator and I see no oil but what looks like very dirty coolant and lots of small particles (maybe metal, and pebbles/rocks?). literally it looks like there are little rock chunks or something in there and the overflow bottle. Cant tell where the coolant spewed from but was thinking of doing the following:
flush the radiator until it looks clean, refill and do a pressure test to see if it has sprung a leak, check hoses and cap, replace if necessary.
Any thoughts? Should have taken a picture but can tonight if it helps. I also should have looked at the oil cap nut will also take care of that tonight.

