baja_beetle

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Hey I was pretty much sure my headgasket blew the other night when my trucks exhaust had a lot of white smoke coming out so I parked it for about a week and just went out today and started it back up. I didn't let it get warmed up but no white smoke so I turned it off and took off the oil cap and well it had a bit of oil on it but nothing out of the ordinary. Then I took off the radiator cap and found this stuff attached to the bottom of it. It was hard to the touch almost like clay but had metallic fibers in it. It was also barely magnetic. What could this be? Anybody seen anything like this before? Could it be headgasket repair in a bottle crap that a previous owner might have put in it to try and sell it to an unlucky guy? Or ground down tiny bits of something? The cap was clean for the first couple days that I owned the truck now 3 weeks or a month later and I open it back up and find this.

I have owned this truck for 3 weeks and it runs great has tons of power. A couple times right when started it would idle low but after hitting the gas for a second it would pick itself back up. It shocked me a 3.0 with 228,000 miles and this thing gets up and goes. Nice low end torque and good power all the way to the redline. Its a manual transmission in a 93 extra cab pickup. With all I heard about how much these are dogs I was surprised.

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Dirt Driver

That looks a lot like "stop-leak" to me. My truck had a bad head gasket and a $60 quart of Blue Devil in the coolant from the previous owner. It didn't stop the leaking head gasket, but it did clog up most of the cooling system and looked much like the brown crud you found.

2DoorRunner

Dog poo

InternetRoadkill

It may be from running the engine with straight tap water and no coolant. That look like corrosion from the block.

edit: The fibers suggest stop leak was in there too.

baja_beetle

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Haha well I cleaned it off and have been driving it around a little bit. When I first start it the truck sounds like its missing just barely but only at idle. When its warm it runs perfect at idle and everywhere else. Its not smoking white either. But the dog poop has started to accumulate again. Any other ideas or more for sure? Im thinking stop leak too.

Tubbyfatty

Get some prestone um...flush or whatever its called. It takes off the stop leak stuff.