I"m pretty sure there's a block drain as well. IIRC when I back flushed my '88, I made sure that drian was open to get ALL the old coolant out. Just doing the radiator doesn't get it all.
She's a new driver? hmmmm...these trucks are great at going, but not great at stopping. In fact, I'd be a little hesitant to give a car/truck to a new driver in the northeast without ABS. In the snpw it's all go go go and gives you a lot of confidence, until you put on the brakes. It requires...
I took mine to a custom muffler shop and had them install a new exhaust minus the CAT. Think I went with a 2 1/2 pipe. Then I bought a chrome tip and screwed that on. Truck sounds much throatier and drives amazing. That was probalby 7 years ago and cost $400.
Hello guys, been a while since. i've been on the forum.
After watching the nut job Scotty Kilmer on Youtube I went ahead and purchased one can each of the fuel and oil treatment from ATS. Link below.
https://www.atscarbonclean.com/product/2-pack-fuel-oil-pour-in-treatments/
My truck has 150K...
Ha! Too late on the O ring if there ever was one. The pan is back on. I guess it makes sense there was an O ring at the junction of the pan tube and the dipstick tube but so far so good.
Meanwhile I woke up to a leaking pan this AM. Took it out and warmed her up at bit and have been torqing the...
Got it! That tube was stuck on there pretty well. PB Blaster and several tries with the torch, gently jiggling the pan so as to not break or bend the tube finally loosened it enough to come off. Cleaning and replacing next.
Gasket is leaking so I thought I'd replace it. The pan is hung up where the dip stick tube connects to the dipstick tube running to the engine compartment. I can see the joint...it's only about a foot away from the pan. I looked up the diagram of the pan and can see this tube extension is...
Agree. Sounds just like the video in this thread below. Would it leak as a result? Do I just replace the whole thing? 1, 2, 3 bananna job? Is there a tech article somewhere?
Knock knock
Just when I was loving my truck so much!
Started it today and it was making a horrible noise....loose chain, clanking, banging. Managed to limp it home and it drove ok, kinda sluggish. After I parked it there was dirty oil looking fluid underneath that turned out to be dirty antifreeze I think...
UPDATE!
I decided to start with the easy stuff and work backwards from there. I ordered a new OEM coil (had aftermarket), new NGK wires (weren't that old) new OEM rotor and new OEM distributor cap. These cost a little over $100. When I went over the truck top to bottom 4 years ago I guess I...
The IMM doesn't work on my truck...nobody does but me! It was just happenstance that I limped into that garage since I was having issues. I've known those guys for a long time, and I only let them do my NY Inspections.
I don't have a choke...or a carb. I did in fact put 2 bottles of Techron in before it happened again, along with some 93 premium. In checking my past notes I can't find any reference to replacing the cap and rotor when I went over the whoe car 3 years ago, or the plug wires, although they're NGK...
Do the rodney flush first. Then, be very careful to get exactly the right of fluid back in. These transmissions are very fickle about the proper level. It took me 3 times, drivng around the block and checking, filling, checking, driving etc ...to get it just right. After I did, all my issues...
Ok, so after this happened last week the idiot monkey mechanic put plugs in...meanwhile, my old plugs looked just fine. However, the truck ran great and got me around. I put some Techron in it for giggles, and the truck was running great...did over 100 miles yesterday. Today was fine...