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There's been a consistant problem with my truck since last year round september maybe, it was the coolant system. Heres the whole background till now.
The first time i had a problem with it i had just arrived at school and was bored as usual in my LUV... well along come my buddie travis and he decides, "Hey, i'm gonna do some doughnuts since it wet outside in my little 2.8 S-10!!!" (not really what he said but whatever...) so he goes and does a little burnout and skids around some and parks back next to me and starts bad mouthing my truck. Well, my truck has enough power to spin tires too so screw you, so i whip out of my spot and down to the other end of the parkin' lot and sit for a sec, rev up and dump the cluth and sit there and spin, put it in second gear spun some then take off and do a bunch of doughnuts in the rain... and came back to my spot. Well then i see that a bunch of the red-necks in the other lot are revin' up and carrying along, so i go to the other lot where they are and do a doughnut around this little pontiac sunfire that's there and come back and get to my spot, put it in reverse and start rollin back in to the space... POP!!! One of my friends told me to cut off my truck, i pop the hood and loe-and-behold a heater hose busted spewin' anti freeze all over my freeshly poslished valve cover... so i call my dad up and told him wut happend and fixed that afternoon after school.
A month or two goes by and i get to school and sit in my usual spot and cut off my truck and sit. Well it starts getting cold again so i crank up my truck and uh-oh... i have NO heat... so i'm like, well the water in the heater core's probably cold, nope, it stays cold for a while. So I shut er' off and pop the hood, the hoses are fine and I don't see anything else the matter so I just think it's a bug, so after school i head home, with still no heat, and get home, i pop the hood and there's no coolant in the overflow jug, and loe-n-behold my block heater had poped out a bit letting out anti-freeze on the block and leaving a white residue. So I tap it back in with a screw driver and top off the anti-freeze (when the motor was cooled off) and tighten it up again. A few days later we drained out the coolant, which was this nice shade of baby crap brown, and put all new hoses on it. Well the next day i get at school and no heat again when i get there, so i pop the hood and there it came out again... so i call my dad and told him about it again. Well i get back out there after school and find out that my dad dropped off a freeze plug (it's the kind that has two washers at both ends and rubber in the middle and has to be tightend to stay in place) and more coolant, so i rip out that heater and let all the new coolant and put in the freeze plug (after taking a trip to advance auto to get the right sized plug since my dad dropped the wrong one) and top it off and go home.
Well just recently I was heading down the highway comin back from school and notice that i'm runnin a little warmer than usuall and when i get on my road i'm pouring out more white smoke than black smoke, so i'm like Wut-da-crap and take it slow going home (i didn't have what i needed to fix what i was about to find out) so i get home and get out of the truck while it's runnin to go open the hood, and notice i'm POURING WHITE SMOKE from under the truck, so i hurry to turn off my baby and open up the hood and just my luck my freeze plug i put in had popped out and was sittin on the motor mount. Well in order to see if my head on my motor cracked I put my hands over the radiator hole and blew in and steam and water only came outta that hole. So i get a pair of pliers and a screw driver and lift out the plug, loosen it up and put it back into the hole (after burnin my hands 10+ times on the manifold) tighen her up and got a lower PSI radiator cap the next day.
ALL of that and you know what the great thing is... THE HEAD IS STILL SOLID WITH NO CRACKS OR VISABLE WARPING!!! This my friends I think is a very reliable motor that's in these diesel luvs. But i'm still gonna have my head checked when i re-build and build-up my motor so it can handel a few shots of propane into the intake...
_________________ -Old ride-82 Luv diesel 5spd with some upgrades -Past rides-82 Sierra, 78 Coupe De'Ville, 91 2dr Blazer, 86 RX7, 86 Porsche 944T (rear-ended and totaled) -Curr. rides- 1970 Ford LTD 4dr, 390 4Bbl, 2nd owner! With a few Extras  00' Civic beater...
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.....Yep very true.....I painted mine with rust converter and preventer...then painted it so it wont rust......