Customer brought truck in for overheating issue. Coolant bottle full of exhaust fumes.
Engine making horrible noises, missing on cylinder 3.

We quickly went from "maybe it's the thermostat" to "whelp I can build you a nice 4.0 to put in."

Washed down middle cylinder from block being cracked behind sleeve. Head gasket fire ring hammered flat. Sleeve is 1/8 inch down the bore. wow.

 

Failed liners sure do a nice job cleaning up the combustion chamber in the heads.

 

and beating the hell out of the head, dam that must have been load