1991 Mercedes Benz 300se

Tiny
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This ones got me puzzled oil is getting into the raditor resivor & raditor I mean a lot of it to but the weird thing is when you drain the oil theres no water in the oil at all im probaly on the wrong track but I did a compression check and the front cyl. Was half of what the others were oh and the motor is a straight 6 any help would be appreicated
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 AT 5:25 PM

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Tiny
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Id suspect a blown head gasket, sounds like your on the right track to me, the reason there may be no antifreeze in the oil is that it evaportates when it gets in the cylinder, and when the car is off antifreeze floats on top of oil so it wont sink in and is easly evaporated off.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 AT 7:50 PM

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