I Need Help!!!

Hi Green Gas, well I am not the first owner of the vehicle and i do not
know the history of it either. The problem just started all of a sudden.
The vehicle did over heat about a year ago and it was do to the water pump
so i replaced it. I can smell gas in the oil. I toke the vehicle to an auto
repair shop to have the diagnostic test done but they found nothing. I am
not driving the vehicle it is parked until i get it fixed. No one has
worked on the vehicle in a year and i have not installed any electronic
equipment. Thanks for getting back to me! grease_monkey (Summer)
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"Grease-Monkey" <smmr_21 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Green Gas, well I am not the first owner of the vehicle and i do not
> know the history of it either. The problem just started all of a sudden.
> The vehicle did over heat about a year ago and it was do to the water pump
> so i replaced it. I can smell gas in the oil. I toke the vehicle to an
> auto
> repair shop to have the diagnostic test done but they found nothing. I am
> not driving the vehicle it is parked until i get it fixed. No one has
> worked on the vehicle in a year and i have not installed any electronic
> equipment. Thanks for getting back to me! grease_monkey (Summer)

I'd check a couple of things - check for a plugged up exhaust system, which
will occur if your catalytic converter/s self-destructs (they do!). Any
competent (independently owned) muffler/exhaust system shop should be able
to help you out - they may charge you a little for the labor, but it would
probably be money well spent. You could also simply drop the exhaust system
down a little at the exhaust manifold and if the engine runs properly (
besides being very loud), you'll know that you have a plugged up exhaust
system. That's what I think this problem is.
Second, run a compression check on the engine - to ensure you don't have a
cracked cylinder or head. Normally, cracks in the head or cylinder will let
water into the oil or oil into the water, but you never know. The only place
fuel can get into the oil is in the combustion chamber, and the only way
that can happen is if you have broken rings, which you may have. I worked on
a van, years ago, that had been run in Mexico. It had a catalytic converter,
but they ran leaded gas in it, and plugged it up solid. They kept running
it, and ended up breaking every pistion ring in the engine, simply due to
the back pressure. I hope yours is not this way, but it bears checking out.
If the compression is low, or uneven throughout the engine, consider going
further on this issue.
Hope this helps. Let us know.
r/
Steve
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