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well it started the other day when sitting in traffic and i noticed steam from under my hood. Well my guage didnt say that it was overheating but stock guages prolly arent the best. Well it was leaking out of one the coolant hoses going to the oil filter adapter. Welll now that i get it home it runs really rough and when i filled the radiator the water was really bubbly like soap. There is no water in the oil and when the car is running it the water bubbles out. I have taken out all of the plugs but i dont remember the plug symptoms of blown headgasket, but there is no gunk on the plugs or anything. I believe it could be a lower intake gasket into the cylinder or a blown head gasket into the cylinder. What do yall think? Oh I dont have a pressure tester so i couldnt do that.
 

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hookups333 said:
well it started the other day when sitting in traffic and i noticed steam from under my hood. Well my guage didnt say that it was overheating but stock guages prolly arent the best. Well it was leaking out of one the coolant hoses going to the oil filter adapter. Welll now that i get it home it runs really rough and when i filled the radiator the water was really bubbly like soap. There is no water in the oil and when the car is running it the water bubbles out. I have taken out all of the plugs but i dont remember the plug symptoms of blown headgasket, but there is no gunk on the plugs or anything. I believe it could be a lower intake gasket into the cylinder or a blown head gasket into the cylinder. What do yall think? Oh I dont have a pressure tester so i couldnt do that.
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Oil filler adapter? your talking about the tube going from the fill neck to the intake tube?

worst case... If so that's not coolant should be oil vapor. If you have steam, i had alot of steam when i blew my head gaskets. It could also be a lower intake gasket.

best case you have a leak from the pipe that goes to your heater core. I had to make my own rubber tubing for that pipe because its discontinued from ford. junkyard special only.
 

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if it turns a white bubbly foam, tan or brown you blew a gasket somewhere
 

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My old 94 V6 engine blew the head gasket twice, it was pushing exhaust into the coolant. This sounds like what you have going on. When the engine cools down, pop the radiator cap and immediately sniff around the water neck. If you smell exhaust, you've got a blown head gasket.
 
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