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[QUOTE=ocbaud]with my luck i probably blew a head gasket!!
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Have you even pulled the spark plugs yet to check them?
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01-23-2005, 07:21 PM
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n I had a head gasket leak I had to remove the spark plug to even try to start it. That let the piston push all the coolant out of the cylinder, then it would start. Just a little bit of hydro lock. It kept acting like it was low battery.
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01-23-2005, 07:35 PM
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Eric, I think you mentioned the rad cap is several years old too? Could be it's letting the hot coolant overflow into the recovery tank and giving off that distinctive antifreeze smell and then cooling down and drawing it back into the rad. This is how it's designed to work but with a weak rad cap it can do it more than usuall. New rad cap is several bucks.
Also I had a bone stock '85 truck with a 305 that as long as it had a 165* stat in it the gauge read steadily and normallly. After putting in a 195* stat for the winter the gauge would climb to extremely hot sitting there idling in 25* outside temps. The gauge would go down some and creep back up. I pulled and replaced that stat with another and got the same results. The engine was not hot but the gauge showed it to be. I replaced the sending unit and the gauge and inspected the wires from the dash to the sending unit looking for a naked place and didn't find anything that could cause it to read hot like that. I finally reinstalled the 165* stat and the gauge settled down again. I didn't have as much in cab heat as I wanted but I felt better about the engine anyway. Just my experience.
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01-23-2005, 11:44 PM
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Sounds like a blown head gasket to me.
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01-24-2005, 10:58 AM
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No spring in the lower huh?
Put one in then...........it really needs one. |
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01-24-2005, 05:26 PM
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This is my first post man I wish I had known about this board sooner,ocbaud I had the exact problem with my 82 C-10 350 it was the waterpump. It was a new pump so I replace everything cooling wise (rad, therm,hoses)before I replaced the pump . I thought It coundn't be the pump, it was brandnew!! And it was moving water!! Hasn't overheated in 2 years. Hope this helps, I took the front off my engine like 4 times before it was fixed.
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01-24-2005, 06:40 PM
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could be the water pump. it has been making a lot of noise recently and doesnt sound smooth while running
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01-24-2005, 06:46 PM
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So change it out hoser!!!
 I will post the pics of our 4x4's later! 
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01-24-2005, 06:48 PM
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well next time maybe you wont spend all that money on gas and beer! haha
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Correct me if I'm wrong but the entire cooling system is pressurized. This is why a leak could potentially cause overheating regardless of the fluid level.
>>at any random time it will shoot up to 210 and then head over to 260 and >>stay there for maybe 10 seconds AT THE MOST It's that wacko of a spike to 260 I'm curiose about. Wonder how much further the tstatcould register. |
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Yeah.............those German cars cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to maintain.
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Yeah, I just hit 80k, but who knows how the previouse owner drove it. I have only driven it for 12k. I have been talking to my cousin to see if we can do the work. I like getting hands on. It feels a lot better knowing you did it. It is just a little intimidating w/ all the stuff under the hood. It is a lot diff than it does when I worked on my truck.
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W/O looking @ the truck this is just a wild guess, but I see 2 apparently separate issues causing lots of havoc.
Your having problems w/temp control & your batt keeps going dead? Hhmmm . . .... what controls temps? Lets see, radiator . ..... thermostat . .... coolant . ..... waterpump . .... fan. Wait, don't you have electric fans? Is there any possibility the 2 issues are related? Your fans or fan control is on the skids & causing both the temp fluctuations & draining the batt when the trucks not running? What are you using to turn your fans on? What temps?
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