This taco shall live. 2013 heart transplant/refresh

That will do it! good catch.

 

Well after looking at the champion radiator upgrade then reading all the ones that developed cracks I’ve decided a new oem radiator will go in for reliability..

 

How in the world did the previous owner manage to overheat the engine so bad?!?

 

Easy 21 y/o son didn’t look at the dash his radiator spung a leak and then he steam cleaned his engine bay.

 

But, works out for you!

 

Yes. The family had dough they just bought a new truck when this happened lol

 

Motor is in the truck. She cranks and has good compression so I’m on to the intake and cooling system refresh tomorrow morning before family comes over. I have all new gaskets and hoses. Along with a metal bipass hose

 

She’s alive! It was a busy day of connecting everything on the intake plumbing new trany and power steering lines ect ect. I have a few vacuum lines to clean up and then I’ll do a short oil change after the first 10 hours just to flush the motor real good. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6eP5M3haVX/?igshid=1ulg525hnutad

 

If can happen pretty damn fast if you don’t know, or misinterpret the warning signs. My engine steam cleaned itself on the interstate with little warning just last week. Blown head gasket with 175k miles. 4K repair bill.

 

That sucks. My personal taco I wired a temp alarm in. I won’t do it to this one because I’m not sure if I’m keeping it or not but the alarm is 1000% going on any of my long term trucks

 

great job

 

Thanks man!

 

keeping that badass 2.7l alive is an impressive feat, wish I had the skill set to do that

 

In 10 days... Damned that's impressive

 

Thanks luckily it was straight forward motor swap I had very little cutting most bolts came out after a good pb blaster soak. It definitely worked out well with the holidays because Sunday was almost a wasted day... I needed a bolt for the starter become the original ones threads were garbage and I didn’t want to use it so i had to wait till Monday for the parts dealership to open. So once i had that on Tuesday it was just a matter of zapping the intake and exhaust on and connecting plugs, hoses, and lines.

 

@andesite this is a great addition to any vehicle you can buy a gauge with a buzzer to wire it up with
https://frsport.com/haltech-ht-0103...0naNe_nuL_AbTVTju0VZrA2e7HhR6DtAaAo9UEALw_wcB You could also just buy a bosch sender or even a serria boat sender if the alarm setting is high enough

 

Color matched the front bumper and added a pro grill

 

She looks great!! Just finished reading your thread. Nice job!!!!