chucks97expy
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Hey everyone, just had something strange happen last week. I had a boil over but my temp gauge showed I was fine. Happened a couple more times but each time it would boil over and then the truck ran fine. I would lose just a little fluid each time but not a lot. First thing I did was check the forums. A lot of guys were talking about head gasket failure and it causing excess gasses to leak into the cooling system to cause over pressure and the boil over. I hoped that wasn't it! So I started on the cheap, first thing I did was change the thermostat. The truck calls for 195degree so that's what she got. I bought the "fail safe" at auto zone for $25. Topped off the anti freeze 50/50 always and it did it again. Keep in mind that I have already changed the heater core, radiator and water pump within the last year. I felt the top radiator hose, it was cool to the touch. I felt the water neck that was holding the new thermostat and it was hot. So the the fluid wasn't flowing. I thought for a bit, maybe to hot of a thermostat? I went on Ebay and bought a 160 degree thermostat from Jegs $10 and also a new radiator/overflow cap. Installed them and topped off the fluid again and this time NO boil over! She's running great now! I haven't had a problem since. If anyone has had this problem I hope this might help out. By the way my heat is just as good as it was with the hotter thermostat installed. Maybe she's just getting old and needed a cooler stat? haha
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