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Nov 20, 2024 | 12:53 PM

Flyinlo01

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Cooling system

Hello I posted on here the other day about oil and coolant issues on a re gasketed 5.3l. I've fixed the water in oil issues with another head gasket passenger side didn't seal. So now I've got a new gasket on and it has an external water leak now. But I accidentally broke off the nipple on the steam port, so I've got it blocked off. Will that build up enough pressure to cause external leak at the very front of cylinder. It's leaking right below the plug I've got in place.

Nov 20, 2024 | 05:35 PM

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Get the replacement Steam Port piece, don't half *** it. It's there for a reason.

Nov 21, 2024 | 06:18 AM

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Try some liquid teflon on the plug to see if that helps. A leak is a leak though and if the liquid teflon doesn't fix the leak then you have other issues there(crack, etc). The pressure is only going to be what the radiator cap allows and if the cap was bad then usually a hose would go before that plug leaked

Nov 21, 2024 | 06:43 AM

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Try some liquid teflon on the plug to see if that helps. A leak is a leak though and if the liquid teflon doesn't fix the leak then you have other issues there(crack, etc).

Did you not read his post? He broke the Steam Tube and instead of putting the correct part back on he's trying to bypass it.

There's the "other issues"..

There needs to be a reading comprehension test in this forum it's starting to degrade rapidly.

Nov 21, 2024 | 10:24 AM

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Did you not read his post? He broke the Steam Tube and instead of putting the correct part back on he's trying to bypass it.

There's the "other issues"..

There needs to be a reading comprehension test in this forum it's starting to degrade rapidly.

read and misunderstood what he was talking about. excuse me oh great reader of readers