bad news....

My first order of business was to find out if I indeed had combustion gases in my cooling system as is suspected.

Jeff Ireland was nice enough to lend me his "sniffer test kit".

Basically you let you car idle until the engine is warmed up. then you pour the test liquid in the test tube. The liquid starts out a dark blue color. On one end of the tube there is a conical shaped rubber insert that goes into your radiator. on the other end you attach a small squishy ball that basically suck or pumps air from the top of the radiator thru the liquid in the tube.

You do this as the car is running and you pump ait thru the tube for about 30-60 seconds......then you wait. In about a min time if the liquid stays blue then you have not combustion gases in your cooling system. If the liquid turns yellow then it is a positive result for combustion gases in you cooling system. Which usually means.....blown headgasket, cracked head, cracked block etc...

My test quickly turned yellow....giving my the sad news.

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after ; (

Bad news......