[V8] I don't believe it!

[Roger M. Woodbury]

  No I don't.  All was going so well, and then it happened.  Or rather, then
it was diagnosed as happening.  Damn!  I HATE it when this happens.

For a while...oh, about ten thousand miles or so...I have been having a
little oil drip out of the front of the engine.  The last time that I looked
up under the engine with the cover off, was in the shop that I used to go to
that is now closed.  Oil sender was the diagnosis, or so we thought at the
time.

But it has gotten worse, and this summer, I started getting some oil smokey
smell at traffic lights once in a while.

Last month, I took a flier and tried to sell the car, listing it on eBay.
In order to make the car as pure as possible, I left the car at the shop
where it gets fixed now.  No hurry, I said, and things being as they are,
the mechanic didn't do anything to it, until now.  (The results on eBay were
laughable:  I am not a motivated seller, really).

The results of the real, in-depth diagnosis?  HEAD GASKET.  RIGHT SIDE.

Damn!

Well, I guess the cross benefit is that I will have a new timing belt at
this point, when all is done.

And of course, two new head gaskets, and who knows what else.

Damn!