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Originally Posted by Marsden
Dave,
Thanks for the response.
I checked the coolant and found that there was no signs of oil at all. Also, the car ran fine after I replaced the coolant immediately following the break in the hose/gooseneck on the radiator.
You are right though about the hood pad. I had forgotten that, but now every time I open the hood, the pad drips another segment of it onto the engine. Yauckkk... I think I will just scrape the whole thing away.
Thanks again.
Marsden
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About 2 months before my hose blew, I noticed the upper hose radiator hose was getting oily looking on top and slightly swelled at the end connections. I first thought was that my new A/C compressor was slinging refrigerant oil, but in my case it turned out be oil in the coolant was contaminating the rubber hoses. That's the reason why I had to replace all of the hoses.
Mine ran good too, but I knew there was some type of problem so I didn't just replace the hose and coolant. Hopefully, yours is just a simple hose failure.
You need to determine what is causing the fouled plugs. It could be head gasket oil passage failure. I think a compression test would be needed to verify the head gasket.
One other note, you should be using non-resistor spark plugs. I tried Platinums once and the car ran crappy, so I switched back to the non-resistor Bosch plugs. Check this link from the first sticky:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=197392
Dave