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Road trip set for tomorrow. 250 miles to go and have another motor put in. Hopefully it makes it, I'm going to carry plenty of water. I have to make this trip twice, again later to pick up the truck.

I do not get the option to pick the motor if I am swapping to a take out for nothing. I am currently doing my best to talk myself into the new crate motor.

I am definitely going to get the truck there. No question about that. The questions that remain are whether I am driving it there or not. And do I want to buy a new crate motor instead of having a take out put in. I really like the idea of new, but don't like the idea of the price involved.

If I have to drive it, I will. I am fairly confident that it would make it. The problem is, this is two trips there and back. They aren't going to do a motor swap for me in a day. One round trip to drop it off, another a couple of weeks later to pick it up again. Two separate one way rental...

Indeed they are.

Well, amazingly, the seller offered to put in another take out motor for free. Or, I can buy a crate motor and they will put that in for me. This is over and above, and they are really going out of their way to help me out here, when they didn't have to do anything really. Now I need to...

It chugs like a train out the slobber tube. It has been like that since the day I picked it up with the new head gaskets. It has the new style gaskets. You are implying this could be a minor head gasket failure?

Another defeat on that one. Thanks for the info, none the less.

Looks bolted to me if this is what you are talking about.

Pepper? Really? The blowby this truck also has leads me to believe it was probably overheated when the head gasket previously blew. It all ties together. Im learning. I have such a love hate relationship with this truck that I am just going to step away from it and drive it at a minimum as...

Looks like I am going to be looking for a motor. Pressurizing the coolant with 10lbs overnight yielded no coolant in the combustion chambers. What I did observe, was that it only loses pressure when the engine is hot. Once it cooled off, it stabalized at 5 lbs overnight. In the morning, I...

Ya I am not too optimistic about preserving this motor at this point.

Patracy, how much coolant was yours collecting in the case? I get very little in the case.

I warmed the truck up today and pulled the valve covers again. I couldnt identify anything definitively. I can see the oil under the rockers does look murky. It seems that water or coolant collects on each rocker and drips down into the oil pool, making it look milky. So i shut it down and...

A cracked head sounds easy to me at this point. I hope I can identify that without actually pulling them. I doubt that will be the case though. But I cant pull the heads until March, as I need to use the truck regularly still.

So you must of had a good amount of coolant in the case then? Gallons? From the information here, it is leading towards a cracked head and not the block like you had. I hope.

From what I saw, it was steaming out the front. At least I have that going for me. And I have to believe that coolant is pushing into the combustion chamber. I have very little in the block, yet am losing gallons. Cracked head putting it in the chamber, or steaming oit as blowby? Does that make...

I am just going to pull the valve covers and see if I can watch the steam. I need the truck so I can't pull heads right now anyway. I am hoping I can just pin point it to the head, but I know that that is being optimistic without actually pulling it apart.

Thank you everyone. I appreciate the insight and advice. I will probably be able to look at it again tomorrow.

The valve covers are off in the picture. The steam is primarily coming from that front head. I am going to do the same thing again. Get it hot, pull the covers, shut it down, and see if I can source the steam.