Hi again,
took the "new' truck to its first job yesterday, helping a friend clean out a guy's stash of old car parts. No problems at all until I got to my first stop, when I shut the truck down it puked coolant everywhere. Still never got above the "O" in "NORMAL" on the temp gauge for the remainder of the trip. This AM bottle was empty. I pulled rad cap and coolant level was just slightly down from the neck of the bottle. I noticed that there are two hoses connected below the rad cap, one to the bottle and one to a tee in what looks like a heater hose. The tee looks factory as the hose connections are crimped. I noticed that the hose going to the bottle was connected to the fitting below the sealing surface for the rad cap and the one going to the tee was above. It seems to me that this is backwards and the system would never pressurize in that condition; my gut tells me that I should just swap the hoses, refill with coolant and see what happens. Is this correct?
Truck is '93 F-150, 300, E4OD, extended cab 2WD.
thanks!
nate
PS - are there any good cheap shop manuals for this truck, or is the factory manual the only one that's worth buying?