1984 244
B23F
160,000 miles
I suspect that I have a bad head gasket but a compression test has me scratching my head.
Symptoms are a milky oil cap, coolant going missing, and after installing a refurbished MAF I have a lot of white smoke out of the tailpipe for a few minutes until the car warms up then it seems to go away.
I performed a compression test with a cheap Harbor Freight tester so the readings should be taken with a grain of salt. All cylinders were done dry and wet with 8 strokes each. The car was at operating temperature about 20 minutes before test was conducted.
Cyl: Dry: Wet:
#1 190 210
#2 190 210
#3 180 210
#4 200 210
Are these readings in line with a possible blown head gasket or something else?
Unless my temp gauge is inaccurate, I have not overheated in the 2 years I've owned it but now that I think of it, it seems like it has always slowly lost coolant and ran rough until it warmed up but the milky white oil cap is new.
Any help is appreciated.
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1984 244 DL
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