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So I was driving to work this morning and out of nowhere every nightmare light I have on my dash went on. Oil, Check Engine, all the good stuff. After that the car started to smoke and sputter. Then stalled. I pulled over and noticed a thick white smoke coming out of my exhaust. I examined the engine bay and underside of the car and did not notice any fluids and nothing was over heating but there was a faint burning smell.

I was driving about 35 mph and was low in the rpms. Actually my entire drive this morning was easy going. The car has been running really well. It's a 1993 SC400 with 230k on the car The motor and transmission were swapped out 4 moths ago form a doner 97 SC4 with 101k. (the car stayed obd1 with original ecu.)

I'm thinking its electrical. What do you think?:

Jikit

I'm about 90% sure you just blew your head gasket.

votru

iTrader: (7)

With 101k motor swapped, did you check up on everything?

Klaus

iTrader: (1)

Did you check your coolant and oil to see what it looked like?


If it looks like this, sorry man:

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The car wont start now. So its not a head gasket. The car would also smoke out of the engine bay not the exhaust if it was the gasket. Plus I would have noticed the Oil.

What you mean everything? At the time of the swap we did new plugs,wires, cap and rotor, timing belt and all fresh new fluids. Just the usual maintenance stuff.

Coolant is good and oil was changed last month. None of my fluids look like that.

Keep it coming guys and thanks for the help.

Allaretake

What does it mean if your coolant looks like that?

'Cuz my Datsun marked her territory a couple of times with her radiator fluid and it was always green.

1SICSC4

Its looking like I spun a bearing

woops62

I have been having trouble with over heating, In the summer I had cooler on full, the car over heated, took the car to get fixed, on the way home, the top radiator tore apart, water everywhere.
new top of radiator, but motor is still getting hot.
No water in oil!
there are 2 pipes on the battery side of the motor, down the bottom, one is "green" some kind of leek.
Could that be a cause of the motor over heating.
I was just getting ready to sell it too.
Any ideas would be great!
Its a sc400 1994 lexus

Tabaka

iTrader: (8)

Who did your engine swap? Where did you get the motor? If you purchased the motor and swap install from the same place, I would demand a free inspection (not to mention reimbursment of the tow). That's not right man, 4 months, you got an oil change recently and it already blew up on you. I'd be fricking pissed off.

Jewcano

iTrader: (4)

I'm confused here, where does the whole OBD change take place in? Because weren't all 96+ cars OBD2? Would that cause some issues to run a OBD1 ECU with an engine that was designed to run OBD2? Again I have no idea about that stuff, just throwing it out there.

kikcaffine

iTrader: (3)

Dont buy a 100k motor if you want it to behave like new.

Thought there were quite a few changes in 97.......

woops62

The boys found out what was wrong with my car, the thermostat was leaking around the seal. it had a new top radiator put in, and it took the guys 4 hours to bleed it! all fixed now.