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WJBertrand said:Even without the valve timing slipping, engines will sometimes spit back through the intake tract, so it should not be too surprising to find coolant on top of an intake valve in the case of a failed head gasket. The deposits on the piston crown seem to indicate it was at one time pretty wet and then dried up, leaving that strange pattern of deposits.
Agreed..... ""IF"" there was a head gasket issue its even more strange it was in both cylinders. And 'leaking' at the same rate... Most of the time its one or the other and really evident (in other engines). I sound like a broken record, but this is just strange. The 'ring' around the top does look and feel like rust.
Just for forum 'info' I might take a few pictures of the head gasket and let everyone take a look to see if you find something I'm not seeing... Who knows, something fun to look at...