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Well onto the next item to fix...what appears to be a head gasket problem
. I'm extremely certain that my issue is in fact a bad H.G. but I took a short video so you all can see what I see. The video was taken right after shutdown on a hot engine. What caught my attention, initially, was the upper radiator hose becoming quite firm upon squeezing it at operating temperature. For what it's worth, I had gotten some air into the system (changed the thermostat and radiator cap/went on a short drive up to operating temperature). I cant imagine these bubbles have anything to do with air being bled out on its' own? I did park the truck nose up and burped the system the best I could prior to my short trip. I pulled over when I saw the dash reading 190 and looked into the overflow tank and didn't see any bubbles? Maybe I didn't look long enough?
I've had coolant loss during my ownership of this vehicle (onto year 5 now). I flushed the system back in 2015 and my overflow tank went from the full mark to the add mark in these five years. I don't have any details other than that because that's all I can remember. For example, I cannot pin point a certain date when I noticed a significant loss of coolant. I discovered, in 2020, I had a leaking heater core which I replaced earlier this year (not sure how long that was leaking). Perhaps that had something to do with it as well.
At the current moment:
I have not been driving the truck very much because I don't want to make the problem much worse or get stranded. With that, I can't say unequivocally if the truck has been (lately) using coolant or not.
My biggest concerns now are the upper radiator hose being very firm and these bubbles which I now discovered. I can't tell if the lower hose is firm as well because of the spring inside of it.
I'm at 156.5K miles on the vehicle.
Thanks All!