I have a 2012 Prius. And I’ve got 256,000 miles on it. I have a catch cannon and I noticed I started having White look like water in it. And then I started having misfires. I took the spark plugs out and the first cylinder was white all the rest were black. So I figured I had a blown head gasket. So I ordered another motor it came in and it did the same exact thing. So now I rebuilt my old engine put it in And I’m getting a clear substance in the Catch can. I’m not a mechanic but I’ve done this transaction four times. I’m just trying to get it fixed. I do know when it’s running sometimes the smoke is somewhat white. And then other times it’s not. I don’t know if that’s because sometimes the thermostats engaged and then that’s the way the white smoke comes out. I didn’t notice it dripping out of the muffler in maintenance mode. But I taste of the substance and it just taste like water. Is there any chance my throttlebody could release antifreeze into the intake and that could go into the catch can? I’m at a standstill. Thank you so much for your knowledge and help and advance.
Welcome to PriusChat... For not being a mechanic you're doing some pretty impressive work! Seems like bad luck with a bad replacement engine... Also maybe your headgasket job wasn't thorough enough?
I sent a message to a moderator earlier today and ask them to move this thread to the Gen 3 forum. It usually takes about 24 to 36 hours to get done.
We need more ways to prevent people from posting in the wrong forum! This problem is happening more and more often lately and when replying to posts its not very obvious which forum you're replying on. Maybe if we increased the font size that identifies which forum you're on and add a popup window that questions (in this case) if a Gen3 owner is posting in the correct forum, because clearly they posted in the wrong forum and it's ridiculous that we don't have more prompts to prevent that! It makes too much work for the moderator to move stuff to other forums. We need to fix that!
