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#1 · (Edited)
Hello,
Just joined the forums, lots of good information. I also have a coolent problem as I have read a few others have as well. Mine is alittle different than others. I thought maybe I had a blown head gasket, but after looking as close as possible I can't tell where the water is coming from. My truck is an 06 with 27k miles. I have water which looks like a rusty film on the bottom of my hood, right above the rad. cap. After only a few miles of driving the truck wants to run hot then drops right back down to normal temp. I did a pressure test on the system to see where the leak may be coming from, but found nothing. I went a head a flushed the rad. and replaced the thermostat, as well as put a new cap on. I thought from the way it looked on the underside of the hood that maybe the cap was bad and it was blowing the water out there. After doing this today, I drove home, maybe 5 miles, by the time I pulled in the driveway, it was dripping yet again. I rechecked everything to make sure it was tight and found nothing loose.
Does anyone have any ideas as to where the water maybe coming from and what I can do to fix this?
Thanks for your help.
Craig

By the way, after posting this I found a few more threads that may have answered my question, however any other ideas are still appreciated.
 
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#2 ·
loss of fluid

I have a very similar problem. I'm bringing it to the shop tomorrow.. They suspect a blow head gasket, but I'm not so sure. I do not have any smoke and my fluid definately looks like it is coming from the degas bottle cap. The shop said that if the head gasket is bad, it could force exuast gasses into the coolant system and force the purge of fluid out of the degas cap. I've lost oer a gallon of coolant in the past week.

I hope that's not what it is...

Have you learned any more on your fluid loss?

I also heard it could be caused by a bad oil cooler...
 
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sd25620 I did talk to the Ford dealer, and for what they told me, it could be either a head gasket or the egr coolent system.
Scuffy, I only replaced a few small parts on my own, with it under warrenty I plan on letting the Ford dealer do the work. I haven't taken it in just yet because of all the aftermarket stuff on it. I still need to talk to them to make sure they will cover it. I have 10.5" of lift on 38" grapplers, 4" silverline exhaust turbo back, banks sixgun with speedloader, coldair intake. So I still need to visit with them. I'm hopeing to get it done in the next week or so.
Thanks for the replys,
 
#7 ·
People always talk about headgaskets and egr cooler problems causing their trucks to overheat but their is also clutch fan issues with these trucks as well that have led to overheating. They will throw a code but not a CEL...

Just throwing that out there.
 
#8 ·
Thanks for throwing that out there, That has crossed my mind in the past, for the reason that, when it over heats, it only does it for a min and everytime the fan sounds like its screaming, actually sounds like sometime in the trany is slipping, but never looses it's pull, so I ruled anything there out.
Anyway Thanks again for all the inputs.
Craig
 
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