The past few weeks I have noticed that when I pull my truck down in gear,
and ride a little ways like that, or when I give it absolute hell, it has
been running a little on the warm side... Just a little to the LEFT of
center, not too big a deal, but I wanted to know why. I also noticed that
after I came home one night, that I was just a little bit lower in the
overflow bottle. I thought that this might have been do to the fact that it
has been a lot cooler lately, but between the 2 I thought that I should look
into it. Especially due to the fact that my motor is making almost 400HP at
127,000 miles... I was suspecting a head gasket. I put the pressure tester
on the rad for a few hours and started it up (I had lost a few psi on the
gauge, down from 14) and found no white smoke or sweat smell from the
exhaust. Good sign of not being a head gasket I thought.... Then I noticed a
small puddle under the truck, that was last night so I had to wait untill
this afternoon to dig into it. It started to look like the intake manifold
gasket, which was replaced because of the belly pan being blown right b4 the
supercharger install. Looked at it closer, and saw that it was not coming
from there, but from around the crease between the timing cover and the
block??????? Then I realized, that it pulls the water through the damn cover
into the pump from the block.... That means that I have to pull the timing
cover, and the crank pulley, radiator... blah blah blah, to do this job now.
So what do I do??? While Ive got it drained do I put the M1 on and TB?
Should I do a cam?? Should I do all of that and RRers?? Should I bother to
do ANY of that on a motor that has 127,000+ miles on it at all????????????
Should I put the wear and miles on a cam and RRers just to take the risk of
blowing the motor shortly after? Taken care of, how much life DOES this
motor have left it it anyway???
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TJ
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1992 Dakota
318, 4X4, Long Bed
46RH, MP Comp
Vortech SCer at 9#
Viper Electric Fan
Crane Ignition, Custom TB
DT Headers, 4350 lbs.
13.85@99.1 Best to Date.
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