[Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0

[Carl Prochilo]

Did you ever get the secondaries solenoid working?
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sun, August 8, 2004 6:27 pm, Ron Porter said:
> The only thing with that is that it seems difficult to not have water in
> the
> oil, and see the "mocha milkshake" on the dipstick. Suppose it's not
> impossible to just have the oil affect two things (cylinders & water) and
> not be cross-contaminated with coolant.....but I would suspect that it
> would
> be rather unlikely.
>
> FWIW, for a few weeks before the Convention, I was filling the garage with
> smoke on about every 4th startup, and I figured one of the seals gave up
> the
> ghost. Now, after 5,400 miles of hot-weather driving to CA & back (using
> three quarts of Castrol 10w-30 MaxLife along the way (really pretty
> good!!),
> it has not happened again since my return.
>
> I figure that hours on end of high engine temps really let the MaxLife "do
> it's thing" to the valve seals.
>
> I also thought that I was ready for a clockspring, as the horn & cruise
> were
> cutting out most of the time. Other than for a couple of hours early the
> first day, they worked for the whole trip and are still working.
>
> The car had not been driven much before the trip, and would sit for days
> without being started, so I figure that a good, long highway trip helped a
> few things!!
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:42 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0
>
>
>> Only other thing would be a blown head gasket that only is pumping oil
> into
>> a cylinder.
>
> That was gonna be my guess (also fits the brown coolant)
>
> mark
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