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Not yet. I had to go out of town this weekend. I intend to bring the truck to the shop after work tomorrow. I will post first I hear anything.

True, I will drain the remaining coolant tomorrow and see if there is a difference. The engine "according to the gauge" says 341 hours, and 6,200 miles. I too was thinking perhaps something was broken loose during the jarring of the radiator a little bit. it reached 200 degrees because my old...

I drained around 3/4 of the coolant into a 5 gallon water jug and poured some out into the mason jar. I do not have access to a pressure tester. Is that something you can rent from an auto store?

Ok Gentlemen, here is how the lines are attached. As I see it, they are in accordance with the TM. I believe only the oil lines can attach to fittings specifically for the oil lines, so cross contamination is ruled out as far as I can tell. the last pic is a sample in a mason jar that has been...

Coming to think of it, the TOP and TOP RIGHT coolant and oil lines cannot be mixed up. the oil line is attached via a threaded fitting, the coolant line is merely a nipple with hose clamp. There is a "CAT house" about 30 miles away but I am deathly scared to hear any figures. When I was running...

Thank you everyone for your thoughts on this. I sure do hope all that it is is a crossed line somehow, even though I have examined the diagram in the TM quite a bit. I will take some pictures tomorrow just for the heck of it, so there is NO doubt among all of us that they are hooked up...

I just got finished putting a new radiator fan on the truck. I put everything back together and let her run for about 5 minutes, checking for leaks and what not. All was good. After shut down I popped the Coolant reservoir and saw oil. I dipped my finger in it and it seemed like A LOT of oil has...