My poor truck...
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From: Holland USA
My poor truck...
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.
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From: Holland USA
My poor truck...
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.
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From: Topsfield, MA
My poor truck...
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
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
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From: Holland USA
My poor truck...
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.
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