OK, several folks have mentioned the need for a headgasket poll.
Did a search and there were 2 but for some reasons there are no results shown...
So here goes:
let's see what happened to your head gasket and see if this is really a serious problem or not...
I'll try to make the poll is in 2 parts, the first 7 choices are about mileage
The last 3 are to try and find out the correlation with overheating or cooling issues.
I'll set up the poll for more than one choice but you have to vote all at the same time, don't wait, you likely won't be able to vote again later.
So use one vote for the mileage part and one vote for the overheating part.
Obviously, you don't vote on the second part if you've had no problems.
Note the % won't be right, but the numbers should be of interest.
edit: voting on the "no prob" will NOT jinx you since obviously a large number of trucks would have to blow up all at once, which ain't possible, so there...
(but somebody else vote on that one first, please...
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edit2: dang, messed up the language on the over 250K one, cut and paste for ya and I don't think I can change it anymore. But you're smart so you figured out that this meant "over 250K" . If not, well, ....
edit3: got to clarify this long and short time biz:
let's say that "long before" means days, weeks, months, or more, for example systemic or permanent problems or recurring issues.
We'll call "right before" anywhere from 5 minutes to a day, say. That would be, for example, repeated overheating and A/C cutting off in the mountains or in the desert. IOW, enough time that you could have otherwise stopped and checked things and perhaps avoided a meltdown.
and "no issues before" means no warning signs at all until it went "bang" or at the most a couple minutes since the temp suddenly went up for the first time, so no time to do anything.
I'm hoping this break down could perhaps help somebody else figure out they are in "potential danger zone" but it still is not too late and action could still be taken.
edit4: the time your "HG blew" means the time that the engine froze, lost power, or blew large amounts of steam... that kinda stuff...
edit 5 (sheesh...): cooling / overheating issues means obviously the temp gauge showed a higher than normal temp or you went into the red, but also you knew there were problems with your rad -like sludge- or you had weird coolant mixes in there, coolant leaks, crusties, that kinda stuff....
Did a search and there were 2 but for some reasons there are no results shown...
So here goes:
let's see what happened to your head gasket and see if this is really a serious problem or not...
I'll try to make the poll is in 2 parts, the first 7 choices are about mileage
The last 3 are to try and find out the correlation with overheating or cooling issues.
I'll set up the poll for more than one choice but you have to vote all at the same time, don't wait, you likely won't be able to vote again later.
So use one vote for the mileage part and one vote for the overheating part.
Obviously, you don't vote on the second part if you've had no problems.
Note the % won't be right, but the numbers should be of interest.
edit: voting on the "no prob" will NOT jinx you since obviously a large number of trucks would have to blow up all at once, which ain't possible, so there...
(but somebody else vote on that one first, please...
)edit2: dang, messed up the language on the over 250K one, cut and paste for ya and I don't think I can change it anymore. But you're smart so you figured out that this meant "over 250K" . If not, well, ....
edit3: got to clarify this long and short time biz:
let's say that "long before" means days, weeks, months, or more, for example systemic or permanent problems or recurring issues.
We'll call "right before" anywhere from 5 minutes to a day, say. That would be, for example, repeated overheating and A/C cutting off in the mountains or in the desert. IOW, enough time that you could have otherwise stopped and checked things and perhaps avoided a meltdown.
and "no issues before" means no warning signs at all until it went "bang" or at the most a couple minutes since the temp suddenly went up for the first time, so no time to do anything.
I'm hoping this break down could perhaps help somebody else figure out they are in "potential danger zone" but it still is not too late and action could still be taken.
edit4: the time your "HG blew" means the time that the engine froze, lost power, or blew large amounts of steam... that kinda stuff...
edit 5 (sheesh...): cooling / overheating issues means obviously the temp gauge showed a higher than normal temp or you went into the red, but also you knew there were problems with your rad -like sludge- or you had weird coolant mixes in there, coolant leaks, crusties, that kinda stuff....
