The Mustang she is now alive...got the new aluminum radiator installed last night...finished it up about 11:30 or 12.
This morning I fired her up and she was really cold at first but I think this new motor is going to run pretty well once you get it warmed up...no surprise, I've had several vehicles with a 289 or 302 in my life and they have all been cold natured.
The odd thing though is when I first fired it up it freaked me out because I created a fairly large cloud of white smoke. I know the very first time we fired her up to do the break in, etc it was smoking enough we were starting to get worried about a bad head gasket at first. But after about 10 minutes it stopped smoking.
This moring it just smoked for about 30 seconds at start up then stopped. I had enough water dripping out of the pipes in back to make a small puddle so I am thinking it was just condensate?
She really hasn't run much for the better part of the month, it was a semi-cool morning and it has been raining like no tomorrow the last couple of days.
This morning I fired her up and she was really cold at first but I think this new motor is going to run pretty well once you get it warmed up...no surprise, I've had several vehicles with a 289 or 302 in my life and they have all been cold natured.
The odd thing though is when I first fired it up it freaked me out because I created a fairly large cloud of white smoke. I know the very first time we fired her up to do the break in, etc it was smoking enough we were starting to get worried about a bad head gasket at first. But after about 10 minutes it stopped smoking.
This moring it just smoked for about 30 seconds at start up then stopped. I had enough water dripping out of the pipes in back to make a small puddle so I am thinking it was just condensate?
She really hasn't run much for the better part of the month, it was a semi-cool morning and it has been raining like no tomorrow the last couple of days.