NightMares
Senior Member
Quick back story.
Last fall I replaced the water pump and timing cover due to a coolant leak. While i was at it, I did a comp cams double roller timing chain.
Since then, I replaced the timing cover again (part under warranty) due to it cracking. Last week it blew what i thought was the water pump as it was pouring, literally pouring, coolant out behind the fan clutch. So Wednesday I tore into it with a warranty replacement water pump sitting on the bench. Come to find out, it was the timing cover seal again, passenger top corner.
So i rented a puller for the harmonic balancer, and started the process....yet again. While i was at it, I did an efan conversion. One 16" flex-a-lite pulling 2215 cfm and one 12" pulling 800.
After reassembly, i took it for a test drive and no leaks, no issues. Come yesterday morning, things started acting up.
Temps creeped up and fluctuated between 220 and 226 (cts2 evolution tuner) and you could tell it was getting warm. I flushed the system using blue devil and no change after driving it. I did notice while flushing with the upper hose off it barely had a stream coming out. I drove to my parents house who have a decently inclined driveway and burped the system, there is no air in the system.
So, after talking to some guys here, i decided to tear into it again and pulled the thermostat thinking maybe it's stuck closed. Boiled it up to 220 and it wasn't opening. Thinking i found my solution, i purchased another and threw it all back together.
Now, it's worse. Less than 10 minutes of driving from starting cold it wandered up to 230. Pull over, let the fans run for a half hour starting it occasionally to circulate the coolant gets it down to 180 or so. Fire it to and drive two miles and its back up to 230.
I've tried driving with the defrost on full blast, but around 220 degrees i have to shut it off as its literally cooking me out of the truck with windows down, rears popped, and rear slider open at 40 miles an hour. I'd have a heat stroke if i continued to drive it.
I've checked the coolant, no oil has been in the system. I changed the oil this morning, there's no water or coolant there. The system pressurizes, i know that as the overflow tank bubbles when it's cooling off. And i have heat. Too much heat. So i don't think it's a head gasket.
Any thoughts from anyone? I'm literally sitting in my new works parking lot after dropping off my tools typing this while it cools off.
The only thing i can think of from here is something is blocking the water passage. Once i can get It cool enough to drive I'm going to drive to a diy car wash, drop the hoses from the radiator and do a high pressure flush in all directions to see if that changes anything. I'm going to fill It back up with just distilled water as I've spent over $75 in coolant over the last 36 hours.
But anyone ever face this issue?
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Last fall I replaced the water pump and timing cover due to a coolant leak. While i was at it, I did a comp cams double roller timing chain.
Since then, I replaced the timing cover again (part under warranty) due to it cracking. Last week it blew what i thought was the water pump as it was pouring, literally pouring, coolant out behind the fan clutch. So Wednesday I tore into it with a warranty replacement water pump sitting on the bench. Come to find out, it was the timing cover seal again, passenger top corner.
So i rented a puller for the harmonic balancer, and started the process....yet again. While i was at it, I did an efan conversion. One 16" flex-a-lite pulling 2215 cfm and one 12" pulling 800.
After reassembly, i took it for a test drive and no leaks, no issues. Come yesterday morning, things started acting up.
Temps creeped up and fluctuated between 220 and 226 (cts2 evolution tuner) and you could tell it was getting warm. I flushed the system using blue devil and no change after driving it. I did notice while flushing with the upper hose off it barely had a stream coming out. I drove to my parents house who have a decently inclined driveway and burped the system, there is no air in the system.
So, after talking to some guys here, i decided to tear into it again and pulled the thermostat thinking maybe it's stuck closed. Boiled it up to 220 and it wasn't opening. Thinking i found my solution, i purchased another and threw it all back together.
Now, it's worse. Less than 10 minutes of driving from starting cold it wandered up to 230. Pull over, let the fans run for a half hour starting it occasionally to circulate the coolant gets it down to 180 or so. Fire it to and drive two miles and its back up to 230.
I've tried driving with the defrost on full blast, but around 220 degrees i have to shut it off as its literally cooking me out of the truck with windows down, rears popped, and rear slider open at 40 miles an hour. I'd have a heat stroke if i continued to drive it.
I've checked the coolant, no oil has been in the system. I changed the oil this morning, there's no water or coolant there. The system pressurizes, i know that as the overflow tank bubbles when it's cooling off. And i have heat. Too much heat. So i don't think it's a head gasket.
Any thoughts from anyone? I'm literally sitting in my new works parking lot after dropping off my tools typing this while it cools off.
The only thing i can think of from here is something is blocking the water passage. Once i can get It cool enough to drive I'm going to drive to a diy car wash, drop the hoses from the radiator and do a high pressure flush in all directions to see if that changes anything. I'm going to fill It back up with just distilled water as I've spent over $75 in coolant over the last 36 hours.
But anyone ever face this issue?
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