coolant elbow broken inside engine

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need help on step by step replacing this part please if anyone could. the elbow just blew apart today while driving and drained all the coolant. i had the same part replaced about 3 months ago. i had no choice to drive the car home about a mile and was running almost to the red on the temp gauge, and is now making some slight knocks and ticks when i cooled it down and then ran it again for 30 seconds or so.. did i do major damage or is this normal?

[FordMan77]

i had no choice to drive the car home about a mile and was running almost to the red on the temp gauge, and is now making some slight knocks and ticks when i cooled it down and then ran it again for 30 seconds or so.. did i do major damage or is this normal?

Well, was it making this noise before you blew the elbow? These motors can take some overheating but anything is possible. Best bet would be to replace the elbows, clean the belt and ALL the pullies off so no coolant is left on them and fire it up after refilling w/ coolant and see what it sounds like. Worst case take a vid of it and post it here and we can try and help.