Im home. I searched all over mcpherson for a waterpump belt. The numbers on the belt wouldnt cross over. The belt measured 42 inches and all I could find were 43 and 44. My napa guy looked up nhc250 and it called for 40 or 44. I tried the 44 and it was too loose and wouldnt tighten up. I tried the 43 and had a terrible time getting it on the pulley but finally got it loosing about a gallon of coolant in the process. I dont like the design of the waterpump adjustment. Im going to look into the Grainger for an emergency.
It took me about an hour to fix and then we started out for home. No real probs until we got into nebraska. The heater core started dumping antifreeze so I shut the valves and got that stopped. Then all the sudden I had oil dumping onto my left shoe. It was sputtering out of the air transfer case lever, ENGINE oil??? I switched the lever into the 6x6 position and that stopped the leak. The oilpressure gauge was jumping around from 45 to 100 psi. I think the air compressor head gasket failed (or something) and was somehow getting oil into the air. I bled all the tanks and let a bunch of air out of the gladhands but no oil came out. One of the air tanks however had about a quart of antifreeze??? Also the airdryer had a constant release of low airpressure (I dont know why). I checked everything I could think of and there was no pressure in the radiator(I mean excess air pressure) or crankcase, no antifreeze in oil or viceversa, the engine was running fine. I switched the lever back to 4x6, took off again and noticed if I stayed off the brakes and let the air stay up where the air compressor didnt cycle that oil didnt leak out of the transfercase lever. I drove the 90 miles home with only about 1pint of oil leaking out of the lever and everything else seemed to work ok.
Anybody know what the problem is?
Thanks for the goodwill guys, I am so thankful to be home. Now I have to figure out what is wrong. Ill try to post some pics tomorrow, I was towing a m447 using a commercial dolly.
