Recent content by bruinbabe4ever

Update on Radiator I pulled the trigger and went with a new water pump since it was about that time. Mechanic pulled the old water pump out and saw it was not the original water pump, and a paper gasket was being used instead of the normal metal one. I purchased the car with about 65k miles on...

No white-ish exhaust, no funny idle I had a pressure test done about 6 months ago. It took about 2 hours for the to be a 10 psi drop, and nothing dripped from the water pump.

Hi All, I have a 2004 V6 4WD 4Runner with roughly 165K miles on it. Just recently my temperature gauge spiked when I was idling, and saw the fluid in the radiator was about halfway full. My mechanic says I should replace the water pump, but I haven't noticed a large drop in my coolant reservoir...