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    how fast were you losing coolant? i just took my oil filler off to top off my oil and found a lot of milky gunk


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    I was needing to top it off every morning, and on long days, before I went home. On my last trip before replacing head gaskets, I went thru almost 2 gallons in 5 or 6 miles!

    Let me know if I can be of any help. I do have a set of intake gaskets that are used, but only for 3 days max. If you find it's only the intake, you can have them.

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    How would I be able to tell if its leaking in the intake?

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    I could tell when I took the upper plenum off, the intake plenum was full of coolant.

    I never was really able to trace the chain of events. Lat this summer I replaced intake gaskets. I thought the problem was fixed but 2 months later
    Started having problems again, which I thought could be from me
    Not using a torque wrench the first time. So I replaced the intake gaskets again, there wasn't much coolant in the intake this time. (probably due to it going thru the heads now) then a couple of days later thebig event of fogging the town with blown heAd gaskets.
    I have 140,000 on the dash. I'll help you any wAy I can, I've gotten pretty familiar with all this......

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