My Elantra just broke down on the side of the road =( First of all, the Elantra has basically the same as the 4g63, only it's 1.8L DOHC.
Here's how it goes... I was driving down the highway and my car all of a sudden started running hot and shut off. I pulled over and steam went everywhere. When I opened the hood, my radiator cap was almost burnt completely off and when I looked under the car, coolant was everywhere. I got it towed home and started messing with it. I refilled the tank with radiator fluid, put a new radiator cap on and I also replaced the cracked thermostat. I started the engine and coolant squirted pretty hard out of my overflow tank. I wanted to inspect this, so I drained some of the tank and found that there was a weird substance in there. It was soft and somewhat gritty, and looked like it had been soaked in oil and grease (any possibility that it would be radiator stop leak or something, I'm not sure how this stuff ends up over time and I have only had my car for around 6,000 miles... previous owner could have put it in there). It was all over the place, I wiped my finger across the opening of my radiator and it was there too; I stuck my finger inside the radiator and it was all in there. It seemed like it coated the inside of my radiator. It seemed like something was clogging up my system and not letting coolant through my engine, thus making fluid come out of my overflow tank. Also, when I squeezed my lower radiator hose, coolant dripped out from the right side of my engine... guessing and sort of hoping it's just my water pump. It wasn't an ungodly amount of water; probably a couple of ounces.
If anyone has experienced or heard of this, please help me out, I would like to get this crap car fixed as soon as possible =) Thanks guys!
Here's how it goes... I was driving down the highway and my car all of a sudden started running hot and shut off. I pulled over and steam went everywhere. When I opened the hood, my radiator cap was almost burnt completely off and when I looked under the car, coolant was everywhere. I got it towed home and started messing with it. I refilled the tank with radiator fluid, put a new radiator cap on and I also replaced the cracked thermostat. I started the engine and coolant squirted pretty hard out of my overflow tank. I wanted to inspect this, so I drained some of the tank and found that there was a weird substance in there. It was soft and somewhat gritty, and looked like it had been soaked in oil and grease (any possibility that it would be radiator stop leak or something, I'm not sure how this stuff ends up over time and I have only had my car for around 6,000 miles... previous owner could have put it in there). It was all over the place, I wiped my finger across the opening of my radiator and it was there too; I stuck my finger inside the radiator and it was all in there. It seemed like it coated the inside of my radiator. It seemed like something was clogging up my system and not letting coolant through my engine, thus making fluid come out of my overflow tank. Also, when I squeezed my lower radiator hose, coolant dripped out from the right side of my engine... guessing and sort of hoping it's just my water pump. It wasn't an ungodly amount of water; probably a couple of ounces.
If anyone has experienced or heard of this, please help me out, I would like to get this crap car fixed as soon as possible =) Thanks guys!
