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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2013, 11:56:24 pm » |
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I just got a chance to look at this post. How well is your fan working? Have you recently changed it? Look at the clutch on the fan and spin the fan by hand with the engine off if it spins freely with little resistance your fan clutch probably bit the dust and is not pulling enough air through the radiator. The shrouding around it helps direct the airflow and allows it to pull air through the radiator fins properly. May have already caused more problems with the head gaskets but you still need to find the root cause.
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« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2013, 12:07:58 am » |
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I just got a chance to look at this post. How well is your fan working? Have you recently changed it? Look at the clutch on the fan and spin the fan by hand with the engine off if it spins freely with little resistance your fan clutch probably bit the dust and is not pulling enough air through the radiator. The shrouding around it helps direct the airflow and allows it to pull air through the radiator fins properly. May have already caused more problems with the head gaskets but you still need to find the root cause.
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well I think what started it all is when my water pump went out 30-45 minutes from the house and I kinda babied it back then my radiator cracked bout an hour from the house which I'm sure didn't help things to much. But the fan is good it takes a little bit of oomph to move it so the clutch is still good. I put 15,000 miles on this truck since November and this is the first trouble I've had from it |
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« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2013, 01:01:18 pm » |
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While its running is there a lot of bubbles coming out of the radiator
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« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2013, 01:29:49 pm » |
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No just looks like the water is kinda rollin
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« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2013, 03:19:44 pm » |
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x2 on the fan clutch...I had lots of problems and finally found it to be the fan clutch...the engine usually heats up more when driving slow or when at a red light and when you kill the engine the fan keeps turning a few rounds is another way to find out if it is the fan clutch...also...the transmission could go out if the engine continues to run hot so need to find your problem asap...
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« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2013, 04:15:37 pm » |
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Just went to try and crank it. Was hydro locked the water ain't rollin no more its bubblin and there's water comin out the tail pipe. Pulled the plugs to start it and it spewed some water out.
Think I'm bout done with Chevy with all the trouble I've had out of em recently. Always heard the 4.3 was bullet proof and until now I believed it ha I put my old 5.7 Chevy and 4.9 Ford through a lot more hell than this one
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« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2013, 04:59:08 pm » |
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Put a builet in it and be done with it, go buy ya a goat but get the 5.9L. It'll out pull a chevy anyday  |
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« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2013, 05:02:33 pm » |
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Man I already know lol I wish I had an '01-'02 with the 6 speed 4x4 sittin in my driveway right now. But life gets in the way and workin for the state don't help much haha
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« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2013, 06:19:59 pm » |
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here is the thing...lots of times it starts out as a small problem and making the wrong desision or not catching it can cause cracked blocks, warped heads or burned head gaskets...and sometimes it started out as a frozen 8 dollar thermostat or a fan clutch...
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« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2013, 06:32:07 pm » |
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Put a builet in it and be done with it, go buy ya a goat but get the 5.9L. It'll out pull a chevy anyday yes, i like my HEMI from me.....who else. tapatalk |
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« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2013, 06:50:43 pm » |
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Put a builet in it and be done with it, go buy ya a goat but get the 5.9L. It'll out pull a chevy anyday yes, i like my HEMI from me.....who else. tapatalk think he's talkin bout the cummins haha |
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« Reply #31 on: March 24, 2013, 07:03:28 pm » |
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Put a builet in it and be done with it, go buy ya a goat but get the 5.9L. It'll out pull a chevy anyday yes, i like my HEMI from me.....who else. tapatalk think he's talkin bout the cummins haha That i be. My ole' stock 06 6spd manual 5.9 smoked an 05 auto durajunk. In all seriousness though, ALL auto builders SUCK now days. Over priced piles of junk, that probly didnt cost half what they charge to build them. |
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« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2013, 07:29:32 pm » |
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Musta been somethin wrong with that dirtymax cause there pretty darn quick just ain't as reliable as the older goats. Did have a old boss that had 375,000 on his dirtymax tho. That's about the highest I've seen on em. But I've personally driven a 12v that showed 670,000ish and still ran great same with the 24v with 400,000ish I drove. Both flatbeds that hardly went anywhere without a good load on em
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« Reply #33 on: March 24, 2013, 09:02:54 pm » |
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Musta been somethin wrong with that dirtymax cause there pretty darn quick just ain't as reliable as the older goats.
X2. He probably didnt want to hurt your feeling feelings charles.  |
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« Reply #34 on: March 24, 2013, 09:13:10 pm » |
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Musta been somethin wrong with that dirtymax cause there pretty darn quick just ain't as reliable as the older goats.
X2. He probably didnt want to hurt your feeling feelings charles. It wasnt me runnin the tcks. I was in iraq, it was 2 brothers and both them drive like they just commited murder and tryn to run from the cops. the brother in my tck drives, well drove it like he stole it everytime he got behind the wheel and the other brother swears up n down he didnt let up, so NO, it wasnt he wasnt tryn to hurt my feelings, u cant hirt somethn that aint there. Its just the/that durajunk was exactly that, junk. Now i did get my butt spanked by a ford twin turbo, and he wasnt fully in it and still waxed my a$$. |
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« Reply #35 on: March 25, 2013, 05:49:02 am » |
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4.3's had intake issues. Then they over heat and cause head issues.
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« Reply #36 on: March 25, 2013, 08:13:19 am » |
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Put a builet in it and be done with it, go buy ya a goat but get the 5.9L. It'll out pull a chevy anyday yes, i like my HEMI from me.....who else. tapatalk think he's talkin bout the cummins haha That i be. My ole' stock 06 6spd manual 5.9 smoked an 05 auto durajunk. In all seriousness though, ALL auto builders SUCK now days. Over priced piles of junk, that probly didnt cost half what they charge to build them. its big, black,dirty,fast and yes got a HEMI  from me.....who else. tapatalk |
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« Reply #37 on: March 25, 2013, 09:42:41 am » |
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No no no. Do not go buy a head from O'Rielly or any other auto part store. Call auto salvage yards and find your engine. If you have the room I would buy the whole engine even if it does not run. Junk yard pull engines are cheap because they are just dirty cores. Then just take the head or heads you need and sell the rest online. Or just get the head and get it tested and rebuilt at a machine shop.
First step is to take the heads off and look. It could just be a gasket. But when the head is off take it to a machine shop NOT A MECHANIC. A mechanic will just take it to a machine shop and charge you more. If they find a head is bad ask them the best place to find a head cheap. They might just have one laying around. Then check junk yards. But if the heads are good then just go get top of the line gaskets and put them back on. Cheap gaskets can end up costing you an engine. I go cheap on lots of things but not gaskets.
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« Reply #38 on: March 25, 2013, 11:25:04 am » |
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Also with havin the heads rebuilt, hav the machine shop resurface and machine the heads flat.
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« Reply #39 on: March 28, 2013, 10:38:35 pm » |
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Be careful having the heads machined it changes the compression ratio and depending on how much they have to take off could cause you more problems typically on those it shouldn't be an issue but I know on fords modular engines if they need machining they need to be replaced decreases clearance to much and will cause interference issues
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