Re: Blown head gasket vs. cracked block
Hey Vern, I hear you on the budget part! My GMC project the main money goes into doesn't fit in this forum but I have a '55 GMC that I drive almost daily that has a very similar engine to yours. Was fortunate enough to get it running real well pretty cheap but lots of labor!
It had not been driven at all since 1997 and with damage to the exhaust manifold and system, radiator and a cross member no way it could have been driven either.
We were lucky that all the stars lined up and it runs great now, but I'm still not super confident with it yet in the 3 years it has been back on the road, not knowing anything about it. We do 150 mile trips now and then but I would still feel better if I could rebuild that 250 I posted pictures of with the block casting number earlier in your thread.
Anyway, I hope it works out, and you can start doing more driving than working on it!
Yeah the Chevy emblem needs to be replaced with the GMC logo! ha!
DAC
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Doug Crawford
Rapid City, SD
1970 GMC K5 Jimmy Mom drove 30 years
1972 GMC C2500 owned since 1979
1955 GMC 100 driver-project
2006 GMC Yukon Denali---wife's truck
Hope to have a '60 GMC Suburban again someday
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