I agree with Jon. Check out the plugs to see if it's only one or two
cylinders causing a problem.
Jon
<jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
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> "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...
>
>
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