Re: (2) 2 quarts low--need expert advice!

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 14:14:58 EDT


"Jon" <jons@laserdrive.com> wrote:

: any thought to a blown head gasket?

  That's a thought - and wouldn't be too expensive to fix either.
I'm not real familiar with the layout of the Magnum heads though -
is it possible to blow the gasket anywhere which would cause oil
to go into a cylinder without also filling it with coolant? The
one time I saw a blown head gasket on a Magnum, it was just lots
of white smoke.

  I suppose what you could do Jason is to pull out your spark
plugs one at a time, with that much oil consuption I'd guess
there would be some visible signs on the plugs. That might
narrow down the problem to a single cylinder or tell you if
the oil is going through all of them...

-- 

-Jon-

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