Oil in coolant? Coolant in oil? Excessive white smoke from tailpipe when vehicle is at normal operating temperature? Engine miss or skip?
Cracked Engine Block or blown head gasket.
A compression test will tell you if a head gasket is blown on ANY engine. Also, white smoke tells you that your burning anti-freeze, which means a head gasket is blown.
Just look at your engine oil and you can tell, if it looks milky there is water getting into the oil and that's the sign of a blown intake gasket or head gasket.
A compression test will verify if the head gasket if blown or not, the majority of the time.
antifreeze in the oil should be a milkshake color
Pressure test the cylinders, but smart money will replace both.
Because the head gasket is blown.
If your gasket has blown and overheating occured then skimming will almost certainly be needed. Send it for testing and skimming better to be safe than sorry.
A dye test will tell you if your head is damaged in the event of a blown head gasket. It turns colors anywhere it is leaking on the head, hence where any cracks would be.
No it will not. The only thing that will fix a blown head gasket is to replace the gasket.
what are you asking here? PLease be more specific ...like - how do I know if my head gasket is blown, or what do I do about a blown head gasket ......
Sure it will start with a blown head gasket. But, if you continue to run this engine with a blown head gasket you will destroy the engine.