Working Man's Burbon

[HO455]

Thanks Leon I'll look into that down the road a bit as tough times have arrived in Burbanville.

Last week I noticed that the drivers side exhaust was blowing a fair amount more white vapor than the passenger side when the truck was cold. Before I could take a closer look at it the weather got down into the 20's and snow was being forecast. Then last Saturday I went out to go to work and the truck cranked over a couple times and then the battery wouldn't turn it over. (So I hopped in the S10 and got snowed in at work with no snow tires. Oh yay! Those Firestone Indy 500 tire aren't much of a snow tire. Photo #2.)

At the time I was thinking that it was cold and the battery was getting old or possibly I messed something under the dash when I was wrestling with the wiper motor replacement and now I have some parasitic load on the battery.

Fast forward to today when I decided to get to the bottom of the issues. First I pulled the battery (Dated 9/19 not new, but not antique) and after hooking it to the charger it showed 8 volts so that was encouraging.

Next decided to retorque the head bolts. However the inside of the valve cover wasn't very encouraging (Photo 1). All of the head bolts were all at torque. Then I started pulling spark plugs thinking I might be able to locate a bad cylinder and when I pulled #7 a couple tablespoons of antifreeze ran out of the cylinder. Uggggg.... I guess the battery is probably okay as it appears I hydro-locked the engine.

Well I guess it's time to make a Summit order.