My engine just blew up, it started to burn antifreeze (white smoke) and then I felt a significant loss of power. When I got home I sprayed water on the exhaust ports and #1 is cooler that the other three. What happened? I did not hear any load noises and there is no knocking sounds like when a connecting rod snaps. Any ideas?

 

Blown head gasket. Check your compression.

 

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thats what it sounds like..
take out the spark plug, inspect, also look inside the bore when the piston at tdc.
if your hg. blew like that that cyl. should be clean as so the srapk plug

 

I removed the spark plugs and all four are black; i looked inside the piston at TDC and it is not clean either. I am going to do a compression test.

 

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I would also agree that the head gasket blew out.

 

anytime yer burning coolant like that, the number one cause is the headgasket.

 

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Instead of a compression,do a leak down. Warm vehicle to operating temperature. Then when warm set each cylinder at TDC and apply psi to the cylinder. Make sure the radiator cap is off and radiator topped off. A blown headgasket will cause to coolant to rise out of the radiator. This pinpoints the bad cylinder and verifies the problem a 100% of the time. Good luck!

 

Thanks for the help, I am going to run a leakdown test I just have to find a test set first.