They make stuff that you can add to the coolant that will plug the leak, as long as it's a small one, it does work, use it sparingly. Bars has been making coolant leak fix for the longest I believe.
If it is just a gasket, you are talking man hours to fix, the intake has to be removed and then the head, take it in and have a shop resurface it, then put it back together, use a torque wrench, make sure all the setting are correct. Last one I did, took better half of a day.

Not exactly.

Over head cams etc = nightmare, getting a chain one tooth out = car runs like an old goat.

However not exactly impossible to figure out Tony.

Get yourself a workshop manual if you are worried (usually find them online) and all your parts would be less than $100 ( head gasket, inlet, exhaust, oil) - assuming the 5.9 is a v8? if so identify which bank has the problem.

maybe its time to get a car that doesnt do 10 mpg so you can afford to repair it

Nothing beats the sound of a V8, a carby fed, fuel and air gulping behemoth of an engine :thumbsup

A cam so lumpy you think the car is stalling, rocking the car at idle like a 1970's washing machine...

A mate's car (old school blown) almost stops the blower surge is that dramatic, sit it in gear at idle with foot on the brake and the rear tyres slowly creep round and round with the entire car itching to surge forward...

a diesel does :2 cents:

get full coverage insurance on it with zero or low deductible, drive to a gas station in the ghetto and jump out to go grab some smokes leaving the door open, hopefully will be gone before you return :2 cents:

Missing key element...revs :thumbsup However each to their own.

absolutely - it's all fine and dandy when you can afford it

i know, i know

im confused

but, nothing beats the sound coming off a start line

'what the fuck is that douches problem'

'DIESEL BITCHEZ'

nobody in the hood wants a pickup truck. maybe they will steal your battery and whatever gas is in your tank, and rip the cats off for the platinum but they dont really want an old truck

Haha seems like a good idea

Its a durango I live in northeast ohio suvs really popular here especially for the winter

bus tokens :2 cents:

theres no regular bus service where i live.

Zip tie the timing chain to the pulley and take it off, just keep to keep tension on it so it doesnt skip a tooth on the bottom pulley inside the timing chain cover. And if you do have to take the time chain cover off and the bottom pulley u mark it. Its really not as complicated as it seems if you have common sense and an FSM.

He will need head gaskets (plural) he will need an intake manifold gasket, and exhaust manifold gaskets for the job.

It's a BIG job

Taking heads off a V8 is work.

You'll probably need to replace some hoses along the way, a new serpentine belt, have to take the rocker arms and push rods out. I forgot about the valve cover gaskets also :)

It's a project. I used to have to do it for a living and it sucks.