Take the radiator cap off and run the truck until it warms up. Make sure the
radiator is full. If you see bubbles there's a good chance you have a blown head
gasket or cracked head.
Doug Fedeli
DICEMAN469@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/27/01 1:35:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> DodgeKota4x4gurl@aol.com writes:
>
> > I don't know what the deal is with my truck! It is getting really
> > aggrivating. It was acting more like a 4 cyl than a 318 for a while,
> meaning,
> >
> > no take off, basically "ball-less" We changed the plugs and wires, and of
> > course air filter, and ran some intake cleaner and some throttle body
> > cleaner
> > through it, of course it smoked , so I assumed it was doing something. It
> > got
> > a bit better for a couple weeks, but lately I haven't been driving it as
> > much, and we started it up yesterday and it was blowing white smoke put
> the
> > tailpipe. Now it has never been overheated (as far as I know) and I treat
> it
> >
> > like a million dollars. The only thing wrong with it right now is the rear
> > main, but it leaks very little (maybe a quart between changes) I don't
> know
> > if the loss of power is from the tranny going bad? or maybe it's just
> > because
> > of the miles (it's got almost 130,000) The reason I say tranny is because
> it
> >
> > sometimes will get to a certain speed and will rev like it's going to
> shift
> > then drop back down and repeat that until I either speed up or slow down.
> I
> > had the tranny serviced less than a year ago, and they said there was
> > nothing
> > wrong with it. Any suggestions are more than welcome!!!!! Sorry so long.
> > TIA!!!
> > Ryan Kates
>
> White smoke is indicative of a blown head gasket. The power loss can be
> attributed to most likely leakage between cylinders since you didn't say
> anything about antifreeze and coolant problems.
>
> Get it checked out ASAP
>
> -Austin
> Vipertruck - "The Anti-Rice"
> Supercharged 6.0 V8
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