Hello guys (and gals)
Well after a trip this past weekend my radiator took a dump on me half way home. I patched up the crack on the plastic tank with some JB weld just to limp home and it worked...Ok.
I replaced the radiator, hoses, and the thermostat. Everytime I went to button it up and add coolant it kept puking from the thermostat housing.
I tried 50 thousand different methods to get it from puking. As I was about to purchase a thermostat housing (thinking it may be the problem) I noticed a crack along the little chunk/hump of metal inside the hole that the thermostat goes in that the bottom bolt threads into.
I verified it is a crack because coolant is filling the bottom bolt hole and I ran air by the crack and the air was coming out underneath.
Basically I want to know how screwed I am. Is that a part of the header or the actual block? New header? Am I up poop creek without a paddle? Can I weld it? What options do I POTENTIALLY have?
Any advice or (hopefully) experiences with this would be wonderful!! I did a little searching here at work, but mostly I found threads on cracked housings not cracks inside the actually engine.
Well after a trip this past weekend my radiator took a dump on me half way home. I patched up the crack on the plastic tank with some JB weld just to limp home and it worked...Ok.
I replaced the radiator, hoses, and the thermostat. Everytime I went to button it up and add coolant it kept puking from the thermostat housing.
I tried 50 thousand different methods to get it from puking. As I was about to purchase a thermostat housing (thinking it may be the problem) I noticed a crack along the little chunk/hump of metal inside the hole that the thermostat goes in that the bottom bolt threads into.
I verified it is a crack because coolant is filling the bottom bolt hole and I ran air by the crack and the air was coming out underneath.
Basically I want to know how screwed I am. Is that a part of the header or the actual block? New header? Am I up poop creek without a paddle? Can I weld it? What options do I POTENTIALLY have?
Any advice or (hopefully) experiences with this would be wonderful!! I did a little searching here at work, but mostly I found threads on cracked housings not cracks inside the actually engine.
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