Quote Originally Posted by lilhomie8913 View Post
Yup sound like a head gasket. My dc was doing the same thing but no milky oil one way to find out is go to auto zone and rent a compression gauge and check yo compression if you have anything close to 135 or less is the head gasket.
Not necessarily true. Low compression alone doesn't warrant a bad head gasket since worn rings, valve seats, and poor valve adjustment can also effect one cylinder more then the other.




You do need to do a compression test/leak down test and post the readings though. Anything more then about a 10% difference between cylinders is considered abnormal. At the same time, remember that you have a wet intake manifold and a leaking intake manifold can leak coolant into the runners and into the cylinders. Looks just like a blown head gasket, but no coolant gets into the oil.






EDIT: Seems like we haven't even confirmed yet that it's burning coolant, and not oil. What does the smoke smell like? Are you loosing any coolant?