Hi. My nephew called this AM and he has a 97 LC (guessing its an 80 series?).
He experienced much 'smoke' last night and had to stop a few times on way home to let it cool. (No not good LOL).
He asked me for advice. Aside from kiddin' him about an OM606 I didn't really know what to say.
He couldn't really pin down the actual source of all the coolant. So I'm guessing the hose didn't blow. He's not stupid.
I did a quick check on remans and JDMs. Remans pretty spendy it seems to me.
What would be the consensus to proceed? Just rebuild? Swap with 4.7L (I had one in a tundra; pretty good I thought)?
The trucks a SW truck so really good elsewise.
Thanks.
Oh. Forgot. He said it has 290 on the ticker.
He experienced much 'smoke' last night and had to stop a few times on way home to let it cool. (No not good LOL).
He asked me for advice. Aside from kiddin' him about an OM606 I didn't really know what to say.
He couldn't really pin down the actual source of all the coolant. So I'm guessing the hose didn't blow. He's not stupid.
I did a quick check on remans and JDMs. Remans pretty spendy it seems to me.
What would be the consensus to proceed? Just rebuild? Swap with 4.7L (I had one in a tundra; pretty good I thought)?
The trucks a SW truck so really good elsewise.
Thanks.
Oh. Forgot. He said it has 290 on the ticker.