Years ago, I traded for a Ford Galaxy with a 302 which had a burned valve. Prior to this I had done a valve job on a set of 302 heads and stored them in the barn. when I cleaned the heads, I did the manifold too. painted it and the heads up with nice new Ford blue. They were on a shelf and covered with plastic.
Pulled them down and replaced the ones with bad valves.
Car ran great. Except. When running over about 55 it would overheat. No coolant lose, just hot. Checked thermostat, water pump, radiator flow etc. Finally decided to change the thermostat. This time I didn't drain the coolant down before removing the thermostat housing.
When I popped it off, off course the coolant came pouring out....along with the source of the problem. One slightly rodent-gnawed pecan.
Apparently one of the varmits had stored nuts in the heads or manifold and it had been blocking flow under the thermostat.
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