Can any help me out a little? My ae92 4afc corollla just strated playing up, the temp gauge goes to red and shuts the engine off, its not overheating, iv changed the thermo sensors, any one able to give me soon advice on what it could be??

How do you know it's not overheating? Maybe your thermostat isn't opening up?

 

If you have changed the temp sensor and the gauge still says the engine is hot there are only a few things that could be causing it:

 

1) your engine is in fact overheating

2) your gauge is fooked

3) you bought a dud temp sensor

Edited September 10, 201214 yr by rian

I just had it changed aswell

ok, simple things first.. buy a thermometer that goes to 100deg C

 

Take of the radiator cap before starting it one morning, make sure it is full of water right up to the neck, then start it and let it idle until the temp gauge goes to the red.

 

You can read the temperature and note it every minute, and you will see it jump up when the thermostat opens. You can check that temp against the thermostat specs, 78 or 83 or whatever it should be. You can check the gauge reading against the thermometer and see what real temp the red zone is. Maybe it will hit 100deg, maybe it won't. You can also see bubbles coming up from a blown head gasket...

 

Then you will know what to tackle.

I had this happen to me, ONCE. In that instance, I blew the header tank on my radiator, and was very lucky not to seize the engine...

Given there is no computer in these cars to monitor engine temp and shut the engine down as a safe-guard in case of overheating, any shut-down of the engine will be by forced electrical (electrical contacts giving up) or mechanical (fuel evaporates before it can enter the combustion chamber) means only.

So howd u fix it mate?

I can keep it running if i leave my foot on the peddal to give it a bit of throttle, but when i take my foot off, it turns off

New radiator, and babied the hell out the engine...before i replaced it...eventually

 

When the car stalls for you and you stop, can you hear a bubbling noise coming from the engine? steam?

Edited September 10, 201214 yr by Bowler

Na no bubbleing or steam

Got any water in the system???

Yeah, i gonna take it to a mechanic tomorro morning see if he can figure it out

Yeah, i gonna take it to a mechanic tomorro morning see if he can figure it out

 

probably a good plan! good luck with it

Thanks mate hopefully he figures it out and it aint to costly