I did a compression check on the motor when I found just one dead cylinder by pulling the plug wire and seeing/hearing no change in idle. Only one cylinder was dead at that time so I figured head gasket and I was losing cooling fluid little by little for a long long time but just lived with it. I kept driving it and yes it over heated but not to the point it was over boiling that I can remember.

Motor has 175,000 miles on it. Heads were "redone" by my friend and previous owner I got the truck from. Have receipts and all that stuff. I dont think the heads were ever re-torqued after initial run-in and not sure if the gaskets were felpro dont have to re-torque gaskets or not. I do know the head bolts were so tight I had to use a 3/4 breaker bar with a 30" handle and lots of BALLS to get them loose....

Over time it became a steam pump....so maybe I did "warm it up" anyways I was not expecting "cracked heads"

Oil PSI has always been good when cold and then would drop to about 10 when idling hot. Motor used NO oil and had NO oil smoke what so ever.

Guess Ill just slap a set of heads on it and go from there.

scott