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Diesel Fan
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From: melbourne AR
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need help I just got done 1/2 in my fuel and put a cluch in last satday sowe now I was driving it to nite and smelld antfreeze stop and look antfreeze was over flowing out over bottle and cap did I blow a head gasket and I got oil in rad no water in oil Iam runing 150 hp inje and edge juice with att. and htt turbo 62/13 at 43 psi . I think I blow a head gasket just looking for some info it has 140,000 miles on it and been a good truck had no problom out of it til to night . James Walters
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Diesel Fan
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 48
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From: Tennessee
Mine was a coked head gasket from too many shots at 1500F as shown on the pyro.
It had a crack from the #3 rocker oil port to the head bolt then on the other side, a crack from that head bolt to the nearby coolant passage. It would leak about 1 cup of oil/hour into the cooling system.
Use an engine hoise to remove and re-install the head and take the head to an engine machine shop and have it milled dead flat...stock milling was extremely rough cut. Installed the "upgraded" head gasket at Cummins. Should be able to get one at your local Freightliner dealer too.
After flushing with water with the thermostat removed, I locked in the throttle at 1800rpm then added 1 cup Cascade Dishwasher powder into the radiator. It soon overflowed foam and oil for a few seconds then subsided.
I kept adding Cascade and foam/oil overflowing until it quit overflowing foam/oil...took the whole box. I ran it another 20 minutes then flushed with clean water. After the water showed clean, I stopped the motor and let it cool off a few hours. After cooling, I siphoned all the water I could with some 1/4" copper tubing down the radiator as far as it would go and pulled a little over 2 gallons out. I added 3 gallons new antifreeze and topped off with clean water....9 months ago with no problems.
Found my post with pics at DieselRam...
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It had a crack from the #3 rocker oil port to the head bolt then on the other side, a crack from that head bolt to the nearby coolant passage. It would leak about 1 cup of oil/hour into the cooling system.
Use an engine hoise to remove and re-install the head and take the head to an engine machine shop and have it milled dead flat...stock milling was extremely rough cut. Installed the "upgraded" head gasket at Cummins. Should be able to get one at your local Freightliner dealer too.
After flushing with water with the thermostat removed, I locked in the throttle at 1800rpm then added 1 cup Cascade Dishwasher powder into the radiator. It soon overflowed foam and oil for a few seconds then subsided.
I kept adding Cascade and foam/oil overflowing until it quit overflowing foam/oil...took the whole box. I ran it another 20 minutes then flushed with clean water. After the water showed clean, I stopped the motor and let it cool off a few hours. After cooling, I siphoned all the water I could with some 1/4" copper tubing down the radiator as far as it would go and pulled a little over 2 gallons out. I added 3 gallons new antifreeze and topped off with clean water....9 months ago with no problems.
Found my post with pics at DieselRam...
Diesel Ram Forums: We cannot proceed.
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