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After reading the crack head thread here, my mystery leak might be a lot more serious than a leaking plug at the underside of the manifold. Here's the long story.
I came back 3 weeks ago from yosemite. There was a snow storm in the valley. We had about 2' of snow overnight. It was an awesome view. The trucked loved the cold weather.
On the way back to the bay area on I-580 east, I noticed the temperature gage was at normal (needle in the middle). It's always at the far left and never moved. So I assume far left is normal and middle is the red zone. Kind of like my fuel gage. 3/4 is full and empty is actually 1/3 tank left.
I started to lose a little power and by the time I was going over the hill near pleasanton, the engine was making the clucking noise. Low oil pressure?
We stopped off for nations giant burgers for about an hour. Checked the engine oil, looks a quart low. Started the truck and the temperature gage went back to middle. I made it back to south city an hour later but I could feel there's a slight loss of power when I got home
two weeks later, I drove it around my area and the engine just never recovered. It's weaker than before with definite lack of ferocity that I am used to. A cracked head perhaps? I read in another thread, crack heads are common and people just drive it around like that. I guess I'll do the same.
I came back 3 weeks ago from yosemite. There was a snow storm in the valley. We had about 2' of snow overnight. It was an awesome view. The trucked loved the cold weather.
On the way back to the bay area on I-580 east, I noticed the temperature gage was at normal (needle in the middle). It's always at the far left and never moved. So I assume far left is normal and middle is the red zone. Kind of like my fuel gage. 3/4 is full and empty is actually 1/3 tank left.
I started to lose a little power and by the time I was going over the hill near pleasanton, the engine was making the clucking noise. Low oil pressure?
We stopped off for nations giant burgers for about an hour. Checked the engine oil, looks a quart low. Started the truck and the temperature gage went back to middle. I made it back to south city an hour later but I could feel there's a slight loss of power when I got home
two weeks later, I drove it around my area and the engine just never recovered. It's weaker than before with definite lack of ferocity that I am used to. A cracked head perhaps? I read in another thread, crack heads are common and people just drive it around like that. I guess I'll do the same.
