I think my car is bleeding to death.....

Ok, so on my way back up to school i get the check engine light. I pull over and pop the hood and some white "smoke" is comming out of the engine bay. I look around and notice that a hose is spraying something onto the manifold and making it steam. I super glued it up and everything seemed to be fixed. About an hour later i pull over for some munchies and notice alot more "smoke" comming out from the hood. this time i find that their is a fluid leaking out where the drive shaft meets the front axel. Is this my transmission fluid leaking out? anyone with any help would be greatly appreciated.

That certainly sounds like tranny fluid to me... What was spraying on your manifold though?

get that hose replaced too. I don't think that super glue was a wise choice.

That certainly sounds like tranny fluid to me... What was spraying on your manifold though?

If I had to guess I'd say it was coolant. Same thing happened to me a couple years ago. One of my heater hoses cracked & was spraying coolant all over the place. Luckily for me the crack was close to the end of the hose, so I just cut it off at the crack & stretched it to fit....

get that hose replaced too. I don't think that super glue was a wise choice.

Not always the best choice, but super glue will fix just about anything in a bind. Has as much holding power as two pieces of steel welded together (sometimes more) and bonds just about anything instantly (ever gotten super glue on you and tried to wash it off? Notice it doesn't wash off and it starts to bond the chlorine and floride in the water to you? Good super glue that is.)

However for high temp things such as under your hood, you'd better get that hose replaced as soon as possible.

The extra white smoke coming out of the hood when you stopped was probably the rest of what that hose was leaking off burning off the engine.

It's coolant. If a pin hole sized hole gets in a hose the pressure makes the coolant squirt out like a water gun, hits in the hot engine and vaporizes it and makes white smoke.

hits in the hot engine and vaporizes it and makes white smoke.


Water vapour does not turn into smoke! :rolleyes:

Didnt any of you people do even basic science at school?


Smoke is suspended particulate matter as the result of imcomplete compustion.


The white vapour that results from super heating water is called steam!

Even the most basicly educated 10 year old should be able to tell the two apart.

But the hose isn't squirting water out of it, it's squirting coolant.

what coolant would be leaking from that location? i can tell my car is preforming right, their seems to be a lack of acceleration/torque.....

Where exactly was that hose you glued? Was it down low near the transmission or farther back near the firewall?

Anyway, I think you have one of the following problems or both:
1. A pin hole leak or crack in one of your small coolant lines

2. Your transmission vent tube is blocked causing excess pressure to build up in the transmission housing causing oil to be pushed past the axel seals. The oil is then slung by the spinning axel hitting hot engine parts causing smoke.

Ok, i got the needle size hole first comming from a tube. If u are looking straight down on the engine bay its at the behinde the top left corner of the engine.

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after i glued the tube it started leaking from the axel joint area. :banghead:

AHEM! :biggrin:

OK, you've got a coolant line leaking and even though you have glued most of the hole shut there is still a leak and hot coolant is landing on to your transmission making it LOOK like there is smoke coming from the transmission. That's my theory and I'm stickin' to it. :smokin:

u can see the fluid coming out of the conection

u can see the fluid coming out of the conection


OK, then I'm falling back to my original theory (modified), if the fluid is reddish or brownish, you have two problems:

1. Leaking coolant form that hose

2. The transmission vent tube is clogged and/or your axel seals are shot.

And that's my final answer.

It appears to be brown. which is that?

okay a quick run down on fluids you might see in the engine bay.
Black/brown=oil
clear/slightly red=brake fluid
green=antifreeze
greyish/black=grease from somewhere...