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Old 05-04-2015, 05:13 PM
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Light coolant smell during hard acceleration!?

My delta runs about 10 to 11 but it has gone up to 17-19 towing nothing for 2-3 seconds. No fogging of the windshield, and carpet is not wet. Puking is on the top of the degas and the bottom, and I have change the cap three times now. My coolant level is below the min level if the truck is warmed up the coolant line sets about 2 inches from the bottom of the degas bottle. Sorry the pictures are so big I could not figure out how to make them smaller. Any advice?









 
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Are you stock or tuned? Head bolts or head studs?
 
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Gearhead SRL/8k tuned with head bolts.
 
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Clean it up, pull the tune off and see if she pukes.
 
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Ok will do
 
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I drove for 25 miles 2 WOT no puking. Keep monitoring or is it the tune, and if it is the tune is there a solution?
 
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The tune is too much for it to handle. Likely bleeding combustion pressure into coolant through head gaskets due to the increase.
 
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So my solution to this problem? It's puking on the SRL tune should I try the 8k. Or do I need to put the studs in I was hoping to want until the bitter end for the studs(like until something goes). Or is that not a good ideal either.
 
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If you smell coolant under rapid acceleration, the torque to yield bolts are compromised. The tune raises cylinder pressure beyond the capacity of the bolts. Studs would be your call when you want to do them, might be sooner or later.
 
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