l33 using coolant, smoking... head gaskets?!
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jul 2008
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From: Bourbonnais IL
l33 using coolant, smoking... head gaskets?! I've done my research, just asking the pros for some opinions. It's burning coolant from what I can tell. The white smoke smells sweet, another indicator. Truck has 132k on it. I just pulled the valve covers and they are clean. No gunk, no milk. Spotless. I don't see cracks around the center bolts. I really thought it'd be a mess under the valve covers. Anyone gone through this before? At this point I'm hoping it's just gaskets and I can clean up these 799s. Let me know what yall think
It sounds like a head gasket or crack allowing cooling into one or more combustion chambers. The absence of "milk" in the oil just means the combustion is able to burn off the current amount of coolant that is leaking.
Fill your radiator up, get one of these...
Pressure up your radiator over night...pull the plugs, roll your engine over and see which cyl is pushing coolant out of the spark plug hole...you may not have to pull both heads if only one is leaking...
Pressure up your radiator over night...pull the plugs, roll your engine over and see which cyl is pushing coolant out of the spark plug hole...you may not have to pull both heads if only one is leaking...
