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We were out gardening in the city plots, when I realized I forgot something back at home. Mrs said she'd got get it (3 miles away).
She was gone 10 mins and arrived back and the engine was smoking pretty good. I popped the hood but couldn't see any leaks or obvious source of the smoke.
Her only comment was 'you really have to push on the brakes to stop this thing'. You'd have to know her, but she's a 'full throttle/full brake' kinda driver. I on the other hand, drive like a 90 yr old.
Once we got home I did some checking. I was hoping her 5000rpm runs were just burning off some remnant oil off the block or headers...
I opened the coolant reservoir to find chocolate milk. Level was higher than normal (last I checked).
From my experiences, like the others said, headgasket blew, head warped (odd unless it overheater for more than such a short trip) or the head cracked.
Might as well pull both heads, no sense in just doing one side unless budget is tight, and redo the top end. That sucks, but not terrible to do, shop rates kinda suck for that though.
Just blame the wife and spend extra to upgrade the whole top end, tell her the turbos will help keep it cooler so it doesn't happen again.
I don't remember the mix ratio, but liquid dishwasher detergent works really good to clean the cooling system. Make sure you triple rinse it to get all the detergent out.
Spent an afternoon getting compression numbers below. The Harbor freight compression tester needed 1/8” of filing around the plug end.
Ordered the oil cooler piece, should arrive this week.
When I pulled the lower radiator hose, coolant came out clean until the end when the milk shake drained from the overflow tank. Guess that make sense, oil floats?
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