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When driving my truck up a long hill ( 10 or more miles),sometimes I will smell a burning rubber kind of odor in the cab. If I pull over and open the hood I can smell it around the air filter area, but the degas bottle is not leaking coolant, nor has the level gone down at all. I will also smell it on a long gradual hill when pulling my trailer. The smell is only there for a minute, then it's gone. The truck runs great. Does anyone have any ideas what this could be?
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Today I opened my hood and found a big orange rubberband sitting on the manifold next to the turbo. I had been smelling the same thing for a while. It was a big thick one about 6-8" inches in diameter by about 3/8" and I have no idea where the thing came from. I only have 2400 miles on my truck. I had to bend a coat hanger to get down to reach it. Is it it some kind of gasket?
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My gut feeling is that the rubber-like odor is coolant, but I can't find any wetness anywhere. Can this be an early sign of head gasket failure? It happens at about the same distance up a long hill that I drive daily that goes from 2000 to 6000 feet elevation. The hill is pretty tough on most vehicles, b/c you see a lot of cars overheated on the side of the road in the summer.
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Originally Posted by Brians97F250Crew
wow ... they're putting them together with spit and rubber bands now .... geesh... LOL.
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