Ok so after battling for three weeks now the fact that my coolant puking was to coincidental to not be from somthing i did wrong when installing my coolant filter kit (since my puking didnt start till the day after i installed my kit) i am now assuming headgaskets and have come to grips with that. I am going to try make an inline pressure guage this weekend and try it. a few things that stifle me still......
1. When my truck is warm and idling or even after a decent drive ive noticed there is not much if any pressure or resistance on my main large coolant lines. you can grab them and collapse them with ease. Is that a part of my hgs failure some how?
2. When i put my coolant kit on i flushed my radiator and changed my coolant to fleetrite that i got from napa that had the additives it needed. (dark red looking coolant). Is it possible that i still have a air lock in there somewhere? My thoughts were that no bleeding was required since my degas bottle would take care of that?
3. at 100k i bulletproofed my truck, however at the time all i heard about was the black onyx hgs and thats what i in stalled along with arp studs and egr delete and updated oil cooler. so i realize im set to fail with those gaskets as well. I have made it 69k on that set up and now have 169k on my truck. is that about what i could expect out of those gaskets?
I have since moved to the panhandle of oklahoma, dont have the shop or resorces to do the work myself agian and am just trying to not overlook anything before i try to find a place to do my hgs...any help or insight will be appreciated!
1. When my truck is warm and idling or even after a decent drive ive noticed there is not much if any pressure or resistance on my main large coolant lines. you can grab them and collapse them with ease. Is that a part of my hgs failure some how?
2. When i put my coolant kit on i flushed my radiator and changed my coolant to fleetrite that i got from napa that had the additives it needed. (dark red looking coolant). Is it possible that i still have a air lock in there somewhere? My thoughts were that no bleeding was required since my degas bottle would take care of that?
3. at 100k i bulletproofed my truck, however at the time all i heard about was the black onyx hgs and thats what i in stalled along with arp studs and egr delete and updated oil cooler. so i realize im set to fail with those gaskets as well. I have made it 69k on that set up and now have 169k on my truck. is that about what i could expect out of those gaskets?
I have since moved to the panhandle of oklahoma, dont have the shop or resorces to do the work myself agian and am just trying to not overlook anything before i try to find a place to do my hgs...any help or insight will be appreciated!