car is smoking....help

[lnewton1974]

Ok so today i changed my radiator hoses and now for some reason it has started smoking. It is smoking from the radiator behind the fan. I did loose alot of fluids when i took the hoses off but i am not sure if that would cause this. I am not seeing any leaks or any fluid anywhere just the smoke. So if anyone has any ideas of what is going please let me know.Thanks

 

[Absit]

Is it constant, at idle, at WOT, when the car's off but still hot?
How long does it last?
What color is it and what does it smell like?

 

[lnewton1974]

It is doing at idle and the color is a white and it smells like anti-freeze. Other than that i just don't know, I am realy baffledby this cause i don't know what i could have done. It is smoking like i said from up and under where the fan is.

 

[Absit]

As in right next to the turbo?

And again, how long does it last? Is your coolant boiling? What's your coolant temp? Sounds like you just got something that gets very hot very wet.

 

[lnewton1974]

I am not sure how long it is lasting cause i end up turning the car off. I can not say how hot its getting, the only gauge i have is the stock temp gauge and that is reading in the middle, then the fan kicks on and i don't see the smoke anymore, as soon as the fan turns off a few minutes later i can see it a little bit. I am wondering if i just did not get enough fluid back in it now it just dawned on me that i lost alot and not sure if i put enough back in, could that be it?

 

[Absit]

Unlikely but why didn't you fill it properly? And why haven't you done it even now that you realize you didn't do it?!

 

[lnewton1974]

To be honest about it i did check it and added more fluids to it but i cant tell if it's still doing it. And the reason I did't do it earlier is because i didn't think about it till just a few minutes ago. I have been trying to figure out why it was smoking, and why it was doing it from behind the fan. You see where the smoke is coming from I really cany see very well cause that is where my fan is at.

 

[TazManianDevil]

under the radiator there's two small metal pipe that's connected by a rubber hose you might want to tighten or check that one, happened to me way back I hope that fix it

 

[lnewton1974]

Thanks i will check that in the morning and i will let you know if that is what it was.

 

[HooKnBooK]

If you haven't drove it since you replaced the hoses and nothing is leaking then it probably just the coolant just burning off.