Darnit!!!
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Darnit!!!
Ok so im gonna vent. I've been driving my 67 now for about a month or so pretty regularly and anytime I would take it on a steady cruise at 50 60 mph it would get hot like 250 260 hot.
Well I finally got sick of it and after a little diagnosis figured it was the water pump, so I buy a good Delco pump and tear the old one off and find absolutly nothing wrong with it. WTF.
Well I call my dad who has run his own auto repair shop for over thirty years and ask him, which I dont like to do lol. Anyway He asks me the basics, Is it missing fins on the impeller, Does the impeller spin on the shaft. No and NO.
Then he asked me if the plate behind the water pump was there? What plate I ask? well apparently some ******* who put the water pump on the last time never put this "Plate" that goes between the water pump and timing cover on these 460s on. So I find one, Overnight it here because I wanted to go to prolly the biggest car show in mid michigan "Frankenmuth Auto Fest" tonight for there big *** street party.
Well after I put the Pump on once and find out I tore the gasket I took it all back apart, Went to the store and bought a gasket put it all back together, and this is after a 10 hour day at work Get the thing full of coolant and run it down the road, Things are great its stayin right at 200 degrees no leaks no nothin SWEET right.
Well I get home shower shave all of the essentials, call up the girl to tell her im on the way. I pull out on to the road and was all excited so I stood on it. BAD IDEA apparently. The next thing I know I'm sideways across a fourlane road with a HUGE cloud of steam behind me. I save it from hittin the ditch and get it to the side of the road figuring I must have forgot to tighten a hose clamp. Cant find anything wrong, Im pissed so I nurse it back two blocks home open the hood and stick a hose in the top of the radiator and come to find out the SOB blew a soft plug out of the side of the block and of course its the one right behind the motor mount.
So needless to say instead of having a great time right now and seeing TONS of beautiful cars and trucks Im sittin at home with a broken oval and a half empty case of beer.
Anyone else have random crap like this happen to them. I would like to hear about it not only for a good laugh but to make me feel like this doesnt just happen to me. lol
Well I finally got sick of it and after a little diagnosis figured it was the water pump, so I buy a good Delco pump and tear the old one off and find absolutly nothing wrong with it. WTF.
Well I call my dad who has run his own auto repair shop for over thirty years and ask him, which I dont like to do lol. Anyway He asks me the basics, Is it missing fins on the impeller, Does the impeller spin on the shaft. No and NO.
Then he asked me if the plate behind the water pump was there? What plate I ask? well apparently some ******* who put the water pump on the last time never put this "Plate" that goes between the water pump and timing cover on these 460s on. So I find one, Overnight it here because I wanted to go to prolly the biggest car show in mid michigan "Frankenmuth Auto Fest" tonight for there big *** street party.
Well after I put the Pump on once and find out I tore the gasket I took it all back apart, Went to the store and bought a gasket put it all back together, and this is after a 10 hour day at work Get the thing full of coolant and run it down the road, Things are great its stayin right at 200 degrees no leaks no nothin SWEET right.
Well I get home shower shave all of the essentials, call up the girl to tell her im on the way. I pull out on to the road and was all excited so I stood on it. BAD IDEA apparently. The next thing I know I'm sideways across a fourlane road with a HUGE cloud of steam behind me. I save it from hittin the ditch and get it to the side of the road figuring I must have forgot to tighten a hose clamp. Cant find anything wrong, Im pissed so I nurse it back two blocks home open the hood and stick a hose in the top of the radiator and come to find out the SOB blew a soft plug out of the side of the block and of course its the one right behind the motor mount.
So needless to say instead of having a great time right now and seeing TONS of beautiful cars and trucks Im sittin at home with a broken oval and a half empty case of beer.
Anyone else have random crap like this happen to them. I would like to hear about it not only for a good laugh but to make me feel like this doesnt just happen to me. lol
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LOL :)
Cool story. :)
No, can't say I ever had that happen to me and my '75, maybe because
I never stood on it? :) Well, stood on the roof many times, but not the
gas pedal. ;)
Ever go out spot lightin' jackrabbits? ;)
Anyway, opening it wide open was what the dune buggies and dirt bikes
were for. LOL :) My pickup was never intended or used for that business.
'75 f150 360FE T18 special ordered late Nov '74 when I was 21 years old.
And it's never broke down and left me stranded anywhere, ever. :)
Just got back from Mexico in it Monday night. :)
Alvin in AZ
ps- Did get my favorite old dirt bike going after ~15 years for the trip to
Mexico just to get a flat tire on the rear (rips out the core almost every
time) after only about an hour of riding it. LOL :) Three days hard work
for an hour y medio ride in Mexico? LOL :)
Cool story. :)
No, can't say I ever had that happen to me and my '75, maybe because
I never stood on it? :) Well, stood on the roof many times, but not the
gas pedal. ;)
Ever go out spot lightin' jackrabbits? ;)
Anyway, opening it wide open was what the dune buggies and dirt bikes
were for. LOL :) My pickup was never intended or used for that business.
'75 f150 360FE T18 special ordered late Nov '74 when I was 21 years old.
And it's never broke down and left me stranded anywhere, ever. :)
Just got back from Mexico in it Monday night. :)
Alvin in AZ
ps- Did get my favorite old dirt bike going after ~15 years for the trip to
Mexico just to get a flat tire on the rear (rips out the core almost every
time) after only about an hour of riding it. LOL :) Three days hard work
for an hour y medio ride in Mexico? LOL :)
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Those old bikes are cool to ride every now and then lol.
Cool to hear you still have the truck and its been good to you. I built this truck to beat on a little bit and this is the second time its left me stranded. The first time was not its fault though, it was operator error. Someone didnt check the accuracy of there gas gauge and it was lying lol.
Cool to hear you still have the truck and its been good to you. I built this truck to beat on a little bit and this is the second time its left me stranded. The first time was not its fault though, it was operator error. Someone didnt check the accuracy of there gas gauge and it was lying lol.
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better check the cap, must not be releasing any pressure. Really common for the cooling system to blow some coolant off as the system is "finding it's own level" but if she couldn't release it past the cap then something else had to give.
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Originally Posted by northerndave;7935247
better check the cap, must not be releasing any pressure.
Really common for the cooling system to blow some coolant
off as the system is "finding it's own level" but if she couldn't
release it past the cap then something else had to give.
Really common for the cooling system to blow some coolant
off as the system is "finding it's own level" but if she couldn't
release it past the cap then something else had to give.
The plug blowing has been bothering me ever since I heard about it
and couldn't figure out why it'd do that. :/
Like Dave said, I just went out and measured mine and it did fine all
summer ~3" from the very top and that's about ~1+1/4" of coolant
above the core itself. Much higher than that level and it blows it off.
Mine didn't come with a recovery tank. :)
Alvin in AZ
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You make a valid point but I have already discovered the reason why it blew out. I replaced all the soft plugs when i rebuilt the motor. Upon inspection today if noticed that i had this one in really crooked. How I never noticed this when I put it together I will never know. I think the reason it did this now is because it has never experienced coolant flow like it did at that point in time. Thanks for the concern though and the thoughts on diagnosis I never thought about that as a reason before.
