CanadaStang
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tpohlmann said:hi, my name is tim. My 97 gt is in about the same predicament. I was driving to work the other day and I noticed that mt car was missing on the drivers side of the car. I didn't think much of it andwent on the work and went home. I thought I may have foud a spark plug because I had put a can of sea foam in my gas take to get rid of built up carbon that might be there. but any way, got home and checked my oil and it was 4 quarts low and the antifreeze is really dark in color. I got to looking and noticed there is a crack in the intake on the passenger side in the temp. switch or pressure switch. the crack is in the intake were the swich screws in. there is fluid running off the intake and collecting on top of the heads under the the intake. If anyone knows what may have caused this. please let me know.
I am getting ready to to do a head swap, but I have not all the pieces to do the swap all at one time.
thanks Tim
Hey Tim, there has been many issues with intakes cracking on the 4.6
Just do a search on here and you'll find hudreds of old threads about it.
As I have already said in an earlier post, you will not get oil in the coolent from a cracked intake or from bad intake gasket. If the coolent is dirty looking it would be b/c of rust and/or contaminants.