It turned out to be the cylinder head gasket that finally gave up. I stated to loose significant engine power a month after this video. Took it to several mechanics and they all wanted to put in a new engine. I was not having that. They told me cylinders 4 and 5 have low compression. So I started reading about head gaskets and read somewhere that if adjacent cylinders have low compression, it could be the head gasket. Since I suspected the oil was smelling like it was mixed with gasoline and coolant, I decided to fix the head gasket myself--with zero knowledge. With the help of a few videos and a 3 part video posted this year on RUclips, I managed to do the job. It's running like a champ again! If this is your case then get 4 Jack stands, a car jack, rent a serpentine belt tool, a 1/2 and a 3/8 drive torque wrench, a long breaker bar, six point deep sockets, and the Hilton book from Autozone. I also recommend you take 3 days to spray your exhaust bolts with rust penetrating spray. And order the Fel-Pro Head Gasket kit. Once you finish the job, refill oil (pour some on the rocker arms when re-assembling) and coolant. Then flush the oil and coolant and refill once again to rid of the mix of gasket-coolant-gasoline debri. Oh, and also get the cheap blue plastic gasoline line disconnect tool from either autozone or oreillys auto for your fuel line. It was a rather thorough and easy job and easier putting it back together. Should take anyone more than a week if you have the tools I mentioned, probably can get it done in two days (that's if you spray the rusted bolts before the job).
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I have the same problem
It turned out to be the cylinder head gasket that finally gave up. I stated to loose significant engine power a month after this video. Took it to several mechanics and they all wanted to put in a new engine. I was not having that. They told me cylinders 4 and 5 have low compression. So I started reading about head gaskets and read somewhere that if adjacent cylinders have low compression, it could be the head gasket. Since I suspected the oil was smelling like it was mixed with gasoline and coolant, I decided to fix the head gasket myself--with zero knowledge. With the help of a few videos and a 3 part video posted this year on RUclips, I managed to do the job. It's running like a champ again! If this is your case then get 4 Jack stands, a car jack, rent a serpentine belt tool, a 1/2 and a 3/8 drive torque wrench, a long breaker bar, six point deep sockets, and the Hilton book from Autozone. I also recommend you take 3 days to spray your exhaust bolts with rust penetrating spray. And order the Fel-Pro Head Gasket kit. Once you finish the job, refill oil (pour some on the rocker arms when re-assembling) and coolant. Then flush the oil and coolant and refill once again to rid of the mix of gasket-coolant-gasoline debri. Oh, and also get the cheap blue plastic gasoline line disconnect tool from either autozone or oreillys auto for your fuel line. It was a rather thorough and easy job and easier putting it back together. Should take anyone more than a week if you have the tools I mentioned, probably can get it done in two days (that's if you spray the rusted bolts before the job).
the head gasket of worn piston rings
How much did all that cost?
20k miles 😂 dum-dum you’re supposed to change every 3k for conventional and 7-10k for full synthetic
@@richards758 were you losing a lot of coolant?