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<blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 2168032" data-attributes="member: 207222">it sounds like, at the very least, you&#039;re going to have to change the headgaskets. a gasket set to do this for the van is going to cost a bit (80-100?). because you have to do the intake, and a good bit of other things to get to them. the reason i think it&#039;s the headgasket is that you said the oil smells like gas. what happened was that it overheated, and blew a headgasket from an oil-jacket to the cylinder. you mention that i didnt see the oil-water mixing, which is fine--but headdgaskets can go in about 5 different ways. one, is pushing the air-fuel mix into the oil, or cooling jackets, on the compression stroke. (you could also have overheated it to the point that the oil-rings seized in the pistons, and let the gas leak down that way--in which case a new motor is needed).but, smoke coming out of the valve cover can still be either of those problems. you&#039;re going to have to tear into it, because there is a lot of internal damage somewhere. bad headgaskets can keep the car from starting by preventing in from building the quality of compression it needs in order to start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luke, post: 2168032, member: 207222"] it sounds like, at the very least, you're going to have to change the headgaskets. a gasket set to do this for the van is going to cost a bit (80-100?). because you have to do the intake, and a good bit of other things to get to them. the reason i think it's the headgasket is that you said the oil smells like gas. what happened was that it overheated, and blew a headgasket from an oil-jacket to the cylinder. you mention that i didnt see the oil-water mixing, which is fine--but headdgaskets can go in about 5 different ways. one, is pushing the air-fuel mix into the oil, or cooling jackets, on the compression stroke. (you could also have overheated it to the point that the oil-rings seized in the pistons, and let the gas leak down that way--in which case a new motor is needed). but, smoke coming out of the valve cover can still be either of those problems. you're going to have to tear into it, because there is a lot of internal damage somewhere. bad headgaskets can keep the car from starting by preventing in from building the quality of compression it needs in order to start. [/QUOTE]

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