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blown head gasket? i can't tell.. 850 1995

I can't tell if I have a blown head gasket or not... thoughts?

I checked the oil today and there was a small amount of milky cloudiness to it. It is 22 degrees outside too if that makes a difference with the synthetic oil. The oil has around 2K miles on it.

There is a very small amount of coolant that i have to replace, and i do know it has a very very slow leak around the edge of the radiator, so the location of the coolant loss isn't for sure other than the radiator location.

The car runs and idles great, and i don't see tons of smoke coming out the back.
However, when I really step on it and try to accelerate hard, it seems to stumble a bit. There is still power, and good power since it's a turbo, but I can't by any means mash it, I have to ease into the boost.

My dilemma is: is the milkiness of the oil pointing to a blown head gasket even when the car idles and runs and does great other than when accelerating hard.. and are these just unrelated things that i'm trying to put together?

This car has previously been very well maintained in the past, but does have 200K showing on the stopped odometer.
Thoughts?
Thanks!






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New blown head gasket? i can't tell.. [850][1995]
posted by  chris with an '86 245  on Sat Dec 12 08:05 CST 2009 >


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