White smoke and coolant everywhere !!

I have a 2003 6 cylinder tacoma. I was on my way to work and noticed white smoke coming out of the hood of my truck. I parked on the side of the road and noticed coolant everywhere. I don’t know that much about trucks. Can anyone help out?
I tried uploading a video but it’s not letting me

 

Sounds like a radiator hose ruptured...



Was the temperature gauge in the red? Also, you can't upload videos directly to TW, just an FYI...

 

No the temperature gauge was not in the red.

 

Well it sounds like you stopped before that happened, but having experienced a similar scenario in another vehicle (NOT my truck) where I saw steam coming from under the hood and a busted hose when I opened the hood, I would say that if a hose didn't break there is definitely a leak somewhere. Take pictures under the hood and post...

 

Very vague. Could be anything at this point that has to do with coolant.

 

White smoke under the hood with no “bang” = good.

White smoke under hood with bang = bad.

White smoke out of tail pipe = bad.

Sounds like a broken coolant hose. There are two big radiator hoses. Then some heater core hoses above the engine against the fire wall, a couple small ones going to and from the throttle body, a couple small ones on the driver side going to and from the oil cooler next to the oil filter, and a hard line between the heads in the valley under the intake manifold. I could have missed some. Tow the truck to a shop or home.

 

I'd start by opening the hood and looking around. A blown hose should be pretty easy to spot.

If a hose, high odds your 22 yo hoses could all stand replacement along with the coolant change out you're doing. A tstat and radiator cap might be a good idea too.

Then clean up the engine bay. Dried coolant all over everything isn't fun to work in. Not to mention really nasty looking.

 

Mine the top tank of the original radiator went. Couldnt see where it was coming from until a pressure tester was on it.

 

Waiting for answers to what the source of the problem was. From both this thread and your other unusual one. I'm suspecting they may be related.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/what-is-this-water-running-down-down-my-mud-flaps.842944/



It's not nice to ask for help and never share results, as those results ultimately help all of us learn.

 

Temp gauges don't read overheats when there isn't any coolant in the system. Wish you the best that you caught it quick enough for there to be no engine damage past what popped.

 

This happened to me just 2 weeks ago. When I attempted to put water in radiator to limp home, the water just leaked right back out. Turns out the radiator had catastrophic failure. I ordered a new Denso radiator, 2 hoses and a cap from RockAuto for ~$150 and easily replaced old parts after watching youtube video. Truck ran great on 2000 mile road trip.