future v8 swap?
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well theres never a day i dont plan on puttin the petal to the metal so im thinkin the clutch upgrade is a must with v8 power, but since were in the middle of a convo i have another question. my v6 has recently started with a problem like yesterday, i drove prolly 20 miles goin home and when i stopped i noticed a little smoke comin from under the hood and i smelled antifreeze, so i checked it out but didnt see a leak. so i looked underneath and saw dripping coming off the left bank of the motor underneath the header. is that a head gasket? the trucks temp reading was also going bazerrk it would go to 230 and i would have no heat inside?? and when it dropped back down to regular temps my heat started coming through again....what is the deal here?
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when you say left, you mean drivers side? maybe head gasket. i would try to trace it all the way back to see if it's drippin from somewhere else. it almost sounds like a bad thermostat might be partly to blame.
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yes the drivers side, and the thing is i allready replaced the thermostat thinking it was the problem but the problem started as the temp guage only reading about 170, and at that time i had no heat, so i replaced the thermostat and flushed the heater core and i had heat again but now its doing this. but the leak i only saw dripping from one spot and it was on the front of the block on the drivers side. im thinkin its a head gasket because they have never been replaced this motor has never been torn into
