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What could be wrong with a 98 buick lesabre that keeps losing antifreeze from the radiator an found in the oil it also blows thick white smoke from the tailpipe?
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∙ 14y ago
You have a blown head gasket. Antifreeze that should be going through a hole in your gasket and then cooling the engine head is going into a cylinder. From there it is going out an exhaust pipe as steam. It is also getting into an oil drain hole and getting into the oil pan. It is inexpensive to get a head gasket fixed compared to the cost of having a blown engine replaced.
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