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Old Mar 28, 2006 | 02:51 PM
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Overheated??

Well today i decided to take my cat off the truck and drive to school without it. I drove to school and it ran perfect. On the way home i stoped at a light and i realized it was idling like it was about to run out of gas. It was idling VERY hard and just seems liked it wanted to die. From that point on, it ran like complete garbage. You could just coasting along with your foot barely on the gas and it would start puttering VERY hard and it wanted to die, once u let your foot off the gas you were ok. But it seemed to get like that every 1/4 so it was hard to drive. I had stoped and poped the hood and realized it had over heated or something because the coolant had bubbled over and the level was over MAX and ready to come out. I let it cool down for 15min and i continued driving but it was still acting funny.Im letting it cool down for the night and ill check to see how it goes later but what could cause that to happen? And i did drive it kinda hard before this episode happened. Could it just be because it overheated and wasnt completely cooled down?

its a 2004 f350 turbodiesel.
with a superchip and airraid intake

P/S after cat was put back on it still ran bad.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2006 | 06:54 PM
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low coolant from a blown head gasket or two comes to mind...
check the bottle for evidence of leakage arounf the cap area...and of course, check the level.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2006 | 06:55 PM
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ohh, and by the way, how did it sound???????????


any more power, before it crapped out of course.
 
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Old Mar 29, 2006 | 05:32 AM
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the sound is absolutely amazing. the whistle at low rpms is insane. and above about 2,500rpm its all growl. it makes dodge guys cry.lol. The levels are completely fine. I had checked the levels avout 5days about and it was perfect. its wierd how it went up so much.
 
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