Head Gasket or Intake Gasket ???? 1991 4.0

[phouse]

I was going to ask a question, then I started to think, maybe I should read some of the earlier post first... I had water squirting out the back of the Block on the driver side, at first I thought that it was the freeze plug, but after looking with a mirror, it was above the freeze plug. Ok, so I got some stop leak to put in the radiator and the leak went away.. Now I have oil coming from the same side of the engine.. From the earlier threads it looks like it could be a head gasket, but as I read on someone had a bad Intake gasket that caused the coolant leak,,
The big question at this point could it be the intake gasket leaking oil through one of the oil ports the way that the coolant leaked. or is it the head gasket...? How many hours does that take for the job...? I have all of the tools for the job including air tools... Is it possible to prepare for the head job, but after taking the intake off I could see the intake gasket to determine if the gasket was bad and then stop there...? Also someone mentioned about flushing the injectors while I had the fuel rail off...



Thanks

 

[SteveVB]

Have you run other checks to see if its a head gasket? Oil in the coolant, loss of compression? I would do a little diagnostic work on that end first.

That said it sounds to me like a loose intake and or bad intake gasket. You could try to retourqe the lower intake bolts see if that helps. Replacing the gasket will take a few hours - its not hard just removing and repolacing a bunch of stuff.