If you have a supercharger, VISUALLY check your intercooler coolant!!!

Pumps just came in, aside from a removable bracket on the ford pump changing the model# slightly they are the same. The body of each pump matches.

 

@inwood customs How many miles were on the IC pump prior to it giving up the ghost?

 

maybe 25K according to my odometer read upon install

I dont drive it much

 

pita, time to veg.........

I cant say its flowing a ton better.........maybe a little

 

I'm sorry man....why was it such a crappy install?? More importantly, why would you think it isn't working like it should??

 

Those clamps around the pump are a pita, then a scramble to plug the hoses. I caught the fluid in a bucket but paint flaked off the bumper into it and i barely had enough fresh stuff to top the sucker off after cycling a few times.
Why do i think its not working as it should?
Because its flowing nothing like 2 videos i got from friends.

Cant be a huge clog, or when i cycled the system to purge it wouldn't have sucked down the fluid as fast.

If the clog is down by the exchanger inlet i wonder if that would cause the resi to overflow, or if it being a closed system that a clog anywhere would cause the entire system to slow down and the resi not overflow?

Or if its up by the inlet to the resi (which has a slow trickle in my video), would the outlet be sucking the resi dry? Or would it all be equal since its closed system?

Im tired, maybe none of that makes sense and im fine with admitting that im exhausted. You asked tho, so i figured id reply with the slop floating around in my noggin and pay for it later

I need a video from a toyota install to make me feel better... both vids i have from others have been self installed systems.

Meanwhile as my body wants to shut off, my brain is ADHDing my ass and making me wonder whats next.
Rigging 15gal of coolant thru a hose to the pump inlet and then cycling the pump off and on while removing each hose 1 by 1 to see where the blockage is? I dont know.

I did take a no touch thermometer and checked the lines... the line coming from the exchanger was 15 to 20 degrees cooler than the line coming out of the blowers intercooler. So fluid is being cooled, its flowing because the temps in the lines changes with the engine being on or off.

Am i rambling yet?

Adhd is a mofukka.

 

Some of your IC hoses is flattened at some point or/and the suction sucks it flat when the pump is on.

 

Can you back flush lines?

 

you must have a collapsed hose or something? You should be filling the coolant with the pump running(according to my Rousch instructions), and it does make a mess because it splashes out from the flow. So, if you have just a trickle, you got another problem. The Toyota preshaped hoses are junk in the first place.

 

Followed every line by hand engine on and engine off.

 

Ill double check, but i followed all hoses by hand lastnight.
I hope i missed a flat one.

I kept the pump off until i had the resi full.... then i cycled for a few seconds and repeated. I was trying to get air out, and leaving it running seemed like an easy way to introduce more air if i wasnt pouring at the right speed.

 

^ Behind the battery too?

 

Yeah, that was a pain in the ass, but i did feel the hose that runs on the side of the battery and the other one runs under the tray if i remember correctly.

The only real bend i see that could be a problem is the 1 that wraps around the trans cooler due to the path. Its taught, but it doesnt look compressed.....looks can be deciving tho.

 

As long as the cap is off the reservoir, it will purge itself of air when filling. Just let it run for a minute or so and keep filling to it takes no more. It's not like the system holds a lot of coolant and it is a free flowing system, so air would take long to be purged out through cap. I'd take a bet on the pre-shaped hose going from pump to intercooler? Could always drain it remove hose from pump and blow air through to make sure there isn't something in there? Sometimes the inner part of the hose will collapse and you visually won't see it.

 

Surely someone didn't leave one of the plastic plugs in a part when the supercharger was installed?

 

Ill head to toyota monday and buy some more coolant, then look further into things.

dunno.
it took over 3yrs to make itself known tho.

 

first page is updated with 2 new videos............. Toyota left a PLUG in the heat exchangers INLET!

 

you sir are the winner....................somehow it isnt making me feel better tho lol

go toyota!

 

Glad you found the solution to your problem!!!

 

Its bittersweet.
Service manger basically called me a liar.
Not sure what i expected....maybe some empathy?