I found the culprit to my near instantaneous and complete loss of coolant. My "turbo coolant inlet hose" (as labeled by my absolutely USELESS Chilton's manual) has weakened and split near the clamp. Unfortunately FCPGroton's explanation of hoses is useless without pictures.

If you follow the lower rad. hose to the hardline that runs behind the block, it's a short hose that runs from the hardline to a thin hardline to the turbo. There is also another hose right next to it that I cannot identify, but would like to replace as a matter of caution. Any ideas what that's to, and where it goes? Didn't feel like getting my face splattered with coolant so didn't wiggle around much under the car to look.

I need help ASAP, PLEASE, as I'm subjected to my neighbor's '91 Tercel in the meantime...a fate nearly worse than death!

TIA,
Casey

And the numbers are: 6842190 Hose inlet
3524483 Hose outlet

Inlet goes directly to turbo. Outlet is on backside of engine near coolant tank. Check with fcp groton and these should not be expensive at all.

Good luck,

dick

Excellent! Thanks so much! Appreciate the help.

Just a suggestion, but if one hose is bad most likely they are all going south. You my just want to order the works behind the engine and do it once rather than two or three times. The car is old enough and hoses die with age.

dick

My upper/lower rad. hose, resevoir hoses, etc., and the main intercooler hose were all already replaced. I just put $3k into this thing for front end work, and a new tranny pump. I don't even want to know what it would cost to replace the remainder of the hoses as there's no way I'm doing it myself. This hose is easy to replace...but...I see your logic. I keep telling myself...just one more year. Last just one more year! But...it has other plans.

Let me do some looking at a VADIS parts and get some numbers. May be tomorrow.

dick

Thanks, much!