justin30513
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Ok....blew a head gasket. Original odometer is 185k. Spun a main bearing when my oil pump failed. The replacement engine was a replacement 3.0 with 8200 that came from a Taurus. I did the necessary things to turn this into a vertically opposed standard Ranger install. I swapped out the head gaskets hand water pump the normal things. It's ran perfectly fine for 3 years up until the last month. I noticed temperature gauge not coming up to normal and then if I forward it oh, it would jump up to where it was supposed to be but never overheated. I thought it was a sticking thermostat. Also did a flush and noticed oh my coolant brown. I thought it was the leftover antifreeze from the heater core and radiator from the swap. I kept flushing in flushing it it would never go green. Change the thermostat and it never acted normal over the last week or two. I would have to drive and I noticed it was running really rough idling rough. I looked under the hood and noticed the heater control valve was leaking and the vacuum hose head came off so I felt there was my reason for the rough idle put it back on. Drive it around for a day and then day before yesterday white smoke out the tailpipe like thick white smoke. Bumper was wet. Never once overheated in fact always ran to cool.
What happened so I don't make the mistake again?
please ask any question possible as I need to track down the problem. I haven't broke it down yet but I'm going to start at the first of next week as I have had a spinal fusion and my brother's going to do the grunt work.
I just never really need some insight into what caused this. My antifreeze definitely has oil in it but no oil in the antifreeze. I can smell fumes gas fumes really bad in the coolant and it was running really rich outside the truck.
thanks all of you in advance. You all have helped me before and have been a great crew.
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What happened so I don't make the mistake again?
please ask any question possible as I need to track down the problem. I haven't broke it down yet but I'm going to start at the first of next week as I have had a spinal fusion and my brother's going to do the grunt work.
I just never really need some insight into what caused this. My antifreeze definitely has oil in it but no oil in the antifreeze. I can smell fumes gas fumes really bad in the coolant and it was running really rich outside the truck.
thanks all of you in advance. You all have helped me before and have been a great crew.
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