seank90, Back to cleaning

Nice job Sean !

Did you know there is an official drain at the bottom of your radiator?

Your overflow tank looks strange, complete different from mine, both st165 as ST162..

Damn that’s a lot of surface rust on your car…and underneath the battery…where did all the metal go?? J

I bought a new standard radiator and put 2 fans on it with the 3sge, that cooled super ! Bought it at a radiator store, not oem though . Perfect fit !

Ps, your coolant looks real dirty… remember to flush everything !!

 

Nice isn't it, making an old car uptodate again

 

nice work sean! glad to so your feeling a bit better. be looking rad once its all done up.

-i rigged in a "push" fan i got of a camry auto for less than $5 from a yard. plugged right in. and only took about 10 min of mods to the shroud (plastic)

 

Strange, yes.
And on the wrong side. Usually, this tank is located near the alternator. Not under the battery :scratch
Is it because it's a UK car (RHD), or because it's equipped with ABS?

My engine (french LHD) :


The radiator look different too.
And what's the big black hose above the timing gear cover??

Seank engine :

 

Your coolant looks rank :byodood Definitely flush everything out! Open the heating hoses and flush them too.

Overflowing to the street might not be such a good idea as the overflow bottle is there not only to catch overflow, but to suck extra coolant into the radiator when it's needed.
You could of course run an overflow hose from the top of the bottle to the ground, that would solve your problem :thumbsup: Pretty sure that's how our regular ones work.

Looks like you're in a for some fun restoring your celi, wish I had the chance to do more with my parts car before we moved.

aaron.

 

the coolant overflow is weird cuz he has abs, iirc rick's square one has the overflow bottle near the battery area as well cuz he has abs

the weird pipe above the timing gear cover is for the power steering lines, the ABS lines are in the way of where they normally go

 

there you go, abs is BS on a 4th gen lol

 

aBS :smilielol5...:leaving

 

Weird
You have a Corona radiator, it has no drain, a fan switch and the top hose is too close to the exhaust
I also have that ugly ps hose on my non ABS car, plse somebody got one spare like Oxi's?
My car has a fusebox where your overflow bottle sits, I'll check on Fernando's JDM ABS car

Auto and manual radiators, both have a drain on the battery side


Fan fusebox sits in front of the battery, as does Oxi's LHD


The &$#@ ugly get-in-the-way ps hose I hate and want gone forever
I was even thinking of moving the bottle to the firewall - help


ABS shouldn't affect overflow location as the other type sits on this red bracket well forward of the ABS - I see your fusebox lives there though

 

that getintheway ps hose seems to live there if there's something in the way...
upon looking at people's engine bays, it's the RHD brake fluid bottle that's in the way of the "hidden" ps hose that i have and most LHD guys. the only exception has been rick's LHD abs car which also has that getintheway hose

 

Kevin, your PS bottle is weird too. Not the common black and round one. Is it stock? A TEMS specification?
Another oddity, Sean's radiator fan has 5 blades, but usually, the st162 3SGE fan has only 4 blades, no?

 

Yes Celi has 4 fan blades
Sean has a Corona radiator, I had one but the hose is too close to the GE exhaust
The p/s bottle/bracket I swapped from a ST202
Fernandos is the same as Sean's apart from the radiator

 

OK for the PS bottle swap, but regarding the Corona radiator, cause to the overflow hose location, it's evident that it's not an original Toyota variation...
More probably a precedent owner adaptation

 

Where Sean's ABS system is, I have a Speed Actuator. No one here has one?

 

Here is a picture of a 1989 LHD french domestic market, w/ABS.



As said by eNtraxGT88, all ABS equipped st162 seem to have their overflow tank on the battery side and the fuse box on the alternator side.
With a stock st162 radiator, the hose is not so close to the exhaust header, unlike Seank's Corona radiator...