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Originally Posted by ironandsteel
Actually, no, I don't know what is wrong. Are you proposing that the head gasket failed on its own, which caused the loping/shaking at idle, and then that precipitated the coolant loss and overheating? That would make some sense. The car has 200k on btw.
The gasket sealant is irrelevant to the symptom I'm trying to diagnose- the shaking, since it was applied long after the shaking began.
In any event, a compression test should reveal something.
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May be I'm reading your first post all wrong but it sounds to me like you had bubbles in the radiator and a failed head gasket.
Head gaskets might suddenly fail but they might be something that fails slowly.