please help

Asked by calvinperry Jan 17, 2016 at 03:45 PM about the 2004 Dodge RAM 2500 SLT LB RWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 2004 dodge ram 5.7 hemi i bought it
with a blown head gasket i took both heads
off and took them both to the head shop and
had them checked and completely reworked
put everything back together with all new
bolts and gaskets i can crank it up and just
let it be ideling and after motor gets warm it
will start to push the water back out of the
radaitor and the whole time its running its
steam coming out of my tail pipe

3 Answers

735

Sounds like to have a bad head gasket.

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395

I would have to agree with Kdog, water out the TailPipe, has always been a blown head gasket in my experience.

395

did you torque the heads down following sequence and Foot lbs supplied in shop manual?

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