Silver C1500 Adventure Wagon

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Got the alignment done yesterday, and drove it around for a couple of hours today!

Have a few issues that need to be addressed right away:
Tick tick tick noise. Could it be an exhaust tick’? Checked all of the wheels and it doesn’t seem to be them. There is a small hole in the exhaust. See pic below. Will weld it up tomorrow. Not sure any ideas?

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Do exhaust ticks usually come from behind the exhaust manifold?

Also a bunch of orange stuff got all over the place on the drivers side. Trying to figure out where that even came from. Maybe a pin hole radiator leak? Poured a bunch of stop leak junk in it way back when now ever Is that ugly color in the radiator.

 

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A little diagnostic update:

Plugged the exhaust hole by installing a SS strap over it. However, the Tick Tick Tick is still there! Turns out it must be a wheel bearing. Put it up on jack stands and spun the rear wheel to verify. Hard to tell where the noise id coming from sometimes.

The radiator what was spewing all the orange junk on the suspension. It's leaking a descent sized puddle every time its driven now. It's the original 34-year-old radiator made in Alabama. Hope the replacement lasts half as long!

One other thing that needs taking care of is the steering gear has loads of play in it.

All in all, 3 new maintenance jobs coming up!!!