1988 toyota 4x4 22 re over heating

[kingcharles60]

I currently discovered i had a head gasket leak and instead of doing it the right way i used the head gasket sealer "Blue Devil". And it's te devil. It ruined my whole coolant system, stopping up everything. So i took out radiator, thermostat, hoses, and flushed the system multiple times. Now it has all new thermostat, stat gasket, hoses, radiator, water pump, fan clutch. And it's stilling running really warm. It doesn't red line but it stay up close to the top of the safe zone and i am running nothing but water in the coolant system because it overheats alot and i got tired of buying antifreeze. So what's next? Any ideas? tips? I really dont want to take the head off because it's my daily driver thank you.

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[fourwd1]

It's just going to get worse, you really should bite the bullet and fix it before you do any more damage.
If coolant gets into the oil, it can trash bearings in the engine.

[pileofbrokenbolts]

hey i know the tread is a couple of months old but howed you make out with your head gasket problem? all the threads on here seem to die with little or no response. it would be good to know how things worked out and if you ran into any new situations and what you did to correct them. after all isnt that why people are on site like this?