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Message text written by "Ricardo Smolinisky" >I drive the car maybe 20 or 30 miles and need to add 1 gallon of water.< Sounds very much like a gone head gasket (cylinder sleeve leak is unlikely - the wall thickness looks like half an inch). The 12 is amazingly tolerant of head gasket leaks; you tend not to get oil in the water, as the water and oil passages are well separated, and it's hard to tell if a cylinder is not firing. I had two leaks in an experimental aluminium head gasket (it corroded), and it took me some weeks to identify the problem. Very clean spark plugs in two cylinders was the giveaway that time. Water may also get past the piston rings, so check the strainer in the crankcase vent (on the front of the left cylinder bank, with a large pipe to the air cleaner) for whitish emulsion. - Jan
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