I think the main leaf breaking would be some scary s*** on the road. Not sure what it would do but I can't help but use my imagination.
If it weren't a main leaf at risk I wouldn't be scared at all lol
I take my truck on trails constantly very two weeks or so and my re arched leaves might last...
Yea I don't know if they will break or not. It's just the risk vs. reward of spending a few hundred bucks!
You know you love that truck so much, wouldn't wanna have a nasty wreck of course.
I was quoted a little more than that from Deaver but I had asked for a lot of changes including new...
I feel obligated to tell you to be extra cautious with those re-arched front springs over the pavement. Especially without the second leaf having a "mil wrap"
It's not very expensive to have Deaver or a few other companies make you new main and second leaves. Deaver is local to me and we have...
You don't want to put it in the lower hose.
I'm sure there is another location that will work. Is there an oil cooler that uses engine coolant? That would normally be on the back side of the thermostat.
Poke around there has to be a spot.
Mike
Yes you need to be on the other side of the thermostat. What you are measuring is only the coolant outlet temp. It's not going to read much of anything until the thermostat opens.
Mike
I would not worry about 207. As for the location of your sender, it must be located in the loop of the engine that circulates when the thermostat is closed.
I'm not familiar with the engine you have but typically coolant circulates through the head and heater core and sometimes a portion of...
Is this a multi layer steel gasket? What do the head bolts look like? Can you mock assemble the head in block with no gasket? You can use Fuji paper to check the interface between the two under clamping.
There's about a million ways to go about this.
The block and head were decked? Or are...