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engine barely runs and runs ruch
I was driving my 4.3 l CPI vin (w) to work one day and the water pump decides to go out causing the engine to overheat without me knowing until it was to hot. Before I could shut the engine off it actually died. and the engine has ran like crud ever since ( have to depress accelerator to star, idles real bad like missfiring and exhaust smells real rich). I noticed it runs rich and there seems to be gas getting into the oil somehow, however i had this problem before and it was the fuel spider which i replaced brand new and was running great for 2 years prior to this incident. I pulled the upper intake and it seems that there is gas in the plenum again as well. I had also wondered if the heat might have caused the head gasket to blow. Well i checked compression on all six cylinders and i got 147 -151 on all 6. So i went ahead and replaced water pump and let it run to see if i could get it back operational temp but before it got there i noticed a lot of what smelled like water vapor coming from behind the engine?!?! Could this be a head gasket? there are no visible coolant leaks! Does anyone know if this could be a head gasket problem. or possibly warped head??
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Do you see any white smoke from the exhaust? Does the coolant level seem to keep lowering?
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