Oil leak?
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Oil leak?
Well, I went out to the shop last night to start putting the new return lines on and noiced that the radiator was dry.
This truck has set for about 8 months now since I ran the batteries down trying to start it awhile back.
Found I had a crack in the radiator which is good cause I was afraid it was something wrong with the heads. I decided to check and make sure there was no water in the oil and found on oil?
Last time I fired the motor up oil was good and was still good a few days later when I was thinking of changing the oil.
Question is, where did the oil go? there is no puddle under the truck so I wonder if it is just all settled at the bottom (there is a little oil on the tip of the stick) or did it just burn the hell out of it the last time I let it run (which was only like 30 minutes or so)?
I am trying to figure out how quickly I am coming up on the place where I either cut my loses and scrap the ole girl or keep going...
This truck has set for about 8 months now since I ran the batteries down trying to start it awhile back.
Found I had a crack in the radiator which is good cause I was afraid it was something wrong with the heads. I decided to check and make sure there was no water in the oil and found on oil?
Last time I fired the motor up oil was good and was still good a few days later when I was thinking of changing the oil.
Question is, where did the oil go? there is no puddle under the truck so I wonder if it is just all settled at the bottom (there is a little oil on the tip of the stick) or did it just burn the hell out of it the last time I let it run (which was only like 30 minutes or so)?
I am trying to figure out how quickly I am coming up on the place where I either cut my loses and scrap the ole girl or keep going...
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From: Victor, MT
Drain the oil pan and see if you get anything. If you do you might have just burned oil out of it....if you get water then you cracked yoru radiator AND blew a head gasket all at once which sounds like a doozy of a job to fix, not terribly expensive but just a lot of work lol.
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