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Salty - still pressure test...
Next thing (you'll need access to a shop & emmissions equip) , with the radiator cap off, start and warm the engine, wave the emmissions tester wand over the radiator fill (BUT NOT IN OR WETTED BY THE COOLANT) . If you have a leaking headgasket, often the hydrocarbons from the comubtion will be mixed in with the antifreeze and tester will pick that up. The theory being that exhaust under high pressure will leak out of a gasket easier than uncompressable coolant can leak in.
3RD - rarely will a blown headgasket get enough coolant in the block to ruin the bearings - they're most likely OK...
Oh yeh, take the wife's new truck to Maine
Slip - contact the service manager of the shop (is this a dealer? If so who?) and set it up so he can have his best mechanic / shop foreman drive the car home the night before and road test it, THEN have that same foreman / top mechanic diagnose it the next day. Odds are that they effed up the TBelt install...
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