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ok. Here's the situation:
My poor Burb started leaking out of the passenger side rear, near the head somewhere. It's hard as a !@#$!@$ to see in there, but I am surmising from the limited view that there is a leak at the manifold/head junction. No problem, pull the intake and replace, right? Well no. It was leaking for maybe a day, and during that day was driven perhaps 15miles? Not leaking badly.
However, about half the coolant was gone out of the radiator. The truck does not leak coolant anywhere else. I don't think it leaked all that out of the new hole, I suspect that the head gasket may be starting to go, since that's the exact symptom 2 other trucks I had (and beat the HELL out of as work trucks, they died with their boots on!).. using coolant for a while, and then poof head gasket goes.
would you:
1. replace the intake gaskets and seal everything up all nice?
2. dig further and replace the head gaskets?
3. Pull the motor out of your Blazer, which is getting revamped anyway and getting a 454, and just swap the whole motor out for a proper rebuild?
Keep in mind that this is my wife's DD and I'm about to leave for a while, if anything happens it's an expensive tow and repair.
Opine.... now.
My poor Burb started leaking out of the passenger side rear, near the head somewhere. It's hard as a !@#$!@$ to see in there, but I am surmising from the limited view that there is a leak at the manifold/head junction. No problem, pull the intake and replace, right? Well no. It was leaking for maybe a day, and during that day was driven perhaps 15miles? Not leaking badly.
However, about half the coolant was gone out of the radiator. The truck does not leak coolant anywhere else. I don't think it leaked all that out of the new hole, I suspect that the head gasket may be starting to go, since that's the exact symptom 2 other trucks I had (and beat the HELL out of as work trucks, they died with their boots on!).. using coolant for a while, and then poof head gasket goes.
would you:
1. replace the intake gaskets and seal everything up all nice?
2. dig further and replace the head gaskets?
3. Pull the motor out of your Blazer, which is getting revamped anyway and getting a 454, and just swap the whole motor out for a proper rebuild?
Keep in mind that this is my wife's DD and I'm about to leave for a while, if anything happens it's an expensive tow and repair.
Opine.... now.
