> Anyway, I stopped, bought some distilled water, added it to it,
> and made it home, but it was overheating, and when it boiled over,
> it looked like mud boiling out of the overflow pot! This stuff looked
> like it had come out of a mudhole.
Any chance your radiator also has a transmission oil cooler built into it?
If so, perhaps your tranny oil cooler is leaking fluid into your radiator.
It is a definite possibility, I know, as it has happened to me.
About two years ago my '99 Chevy S10 (then with only 37k miles on it or so)
started overheating, I checked the fluid and it looked like someone had
poured chocolate ice cream into the cooling system - everything was a nasty
soupy brown color.
Long story short, the fix required a rebuilt transmission from Jasper, a new
radiator and new cooling hoses. Total cost, including labor, was over $3000
and I was very ticked off because the truck was JUST out of warrantee.
Hopefully this isn't your problem, but it just might be...
Kai
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Kai M. Radicke
Wishbone Classics
www.wbclassics.com
Ph: 215.945.7250
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