Blowing hoses like crazy.

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Sep 7, 2015 | 10:59 PM

regret

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Blowing hoses like crazy.

The other day I blew a heater hose going down the highway and lost about 8 liters of coolant in 60 seconds, 4 inch long split down the hose. Got new heater hoses on topped off the coolant ran the truck radiator cap off with heater on for a bit it was blowing air bubbles out/sucking fluid. Drove it home 100 miles fast forward to tonight. Blew a hole in the upper radiator hose managed to get one at 8 oclock tonight and dropped about 2 liters of coolant in the Cambodian tire lot lol. Anyways got a new hose on and topped er off running with the cap off heater on. After getting up to 180 on the water pump with it running the upper hose is soft, I'm thinking this is weird.

Edit: When the first heater hose went I thought the truck was dead lol big cloud of smoke going down the highway. It happened right after I stomped on it.

Sep 8, 2015 | 12:19 AM

mrollings53

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Sounds like old tired hoses, a bad radiator cap, or both.

Sep 8, 2015 | 07:33 PM

Briansshop

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Head gasket

Sep 8, 2015 | 08:18 PM

regret

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Originally Posted by Briansshop

Head gasket

Nope! Pressuring up proper now and hasn't blown a hose or contaminated any of the other fluids or exhaust. Seems like my old hoses decided to all go at once. I'm still gonna replace the radiator cap though.

Sep 8, 2015 | 09:21 PM

Briansshop

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Good. Was just throwing it out there.

Sep 9, 2015 | 06:33 AM

Bad Bad Leroy Brown

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Yup, sounds like its time to just replace them all and be done with it...

Sep 13, 2015 | 11:18 PM

regret

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Replaced em all and am now thinking that my mystery disappearing coolant problem is done for. Truck reads temperature on the gauge now and fuel mileage seems to have increased. The hose was weird it wouldn't really release fluid until you squeezed it but it had a steady stream out of the bottom kinda hidden. Weird stuff