ok, i've always been a chevy guy because my dad is a chevy guy and so on, i bought my 89 f-150 from my cousin for 1000 bucks, the tranny was slippin but it was because he pulled a big lake boat from South Carolina to Texas in overdrive. i put a new tranny in it and if you take a look at my gallery you can see i've done quite a bit of extra work to the truck, my question is though, how tough is the 302? i blew a water hose lastnight coming home from church, it ran a little warm but not very alrming. this morning on the way to school it started running very warm(i was thinking it'd be somethin like a head gasket with my luck) so i get to school and pop the hood to find water gusing out, i look at it and then i wonder how many miles i drove it with out water, it never got over the word normal on the gauge, but i'mm gonna fill it up with water when i leave school in about 5 mins, then i'm gonna go to town to get another hose. i jsut hope it'll make it, i don't really doubt it because the truck has never left me stranded, even when the tranny went, i still had 2nd gear, had to drive it 40miles to the tranny shop and it did it. well i've rambled enough.

 

I've run 302's bone dry and they were fine once water was put in. Keep your radiator cap on loose till you get the leak fixed.

 

well i got it fixed, ford dealer didn't have the right hose and neither did NAPA so i took the Napa hose and a heater hose off of an 82 datsun 280zx, made a hose splice out of the old heater core out of my truck(the part where the hose slips over it) 4 hose clamps and a lil cuttin later, it's all fixed doesn't leak and the gauge won't go over the R in normal.

 

As long as you didnt go to high in temp as u said, you shouldnt have done any damage.


Primary rig is:
95' F-150 EB 300/6 5 spd with 4" Superlift, MSD, Ram Air, Gibson Exhaust, 32" BFG Muds
THERE ARE SOME PICS IN MY GALLERY!! :-)


Then theres:
88' F-250 Superduty 351 + c6
95' Mercury Cougar 4.6L V-8
80' E-350 300/6 and a
3 spd column shifter. Top speed, 65mph, Go Baby Go!

The newest addition to the Ford family is a 99' Mustang GT 4.6L

 

i wasn't really worried about it being hurt, it never got out of the word normal so i was just kinda amazed that it ran that cool with a leak that big, i opend the hood and it shot water out about 8-10feet away from the truck. and my radiator leaked where the drain is, but i drove it down the road for a couple miles and then when i got back it wasn't leakin anymore.