Throw a motor at it.

 

Is this person superhuman? If the op can throw a V8 motor a vid is a must LOL.

 

Well of course we would want pics.......

 

are the 2 bad cylinders next to each other? if so its very likely you have a blown head gasket... when they blow this way the compression leaks from one cylinder to the adjacent one... and you consume coolant usually...(slowly) ... I'm gonna get hell for suggesting this but you might have great luck sealing it up with something like bars leak or blue devil.... if you gonna swap the motor out anyway you might want to give it a shot. I've seen videos on youtube where its sealed up some big leaks for a long time.

 

I feel your pain I'm going through the same issue with my truck. Actually just ordered my new motor yesterday from Oreilly's after tax....$2018 but 285 is the core so it comes down a bit....

 

shaggy433 let me know how that goes for you , Id like to know what its gonna take to get this goat bak on the road , but b4 I replace Im def gonna chk the heads if IM lucky Ill just have to change out the gaskets

 

Yours could be just a gasket..Mine only had one cylinder that had 0psi the rest were ok. One place said it was an exhaust valve another said rings..on a motor that only has 7000 miles on it..I just decided to go the easiest way and start anew..

whole story here...
https://dodgeforum.com/forum/2nd-gen...not-fixed.html

 

a leakdown test should have told you which one it was depending on where the air was leaking... heads are a hell of a lot cheaper than an engine...

 

Well Im really hoping its the heads or head gasket , maybe thats y I only have water coming out the exhaust and not into the oil ... Ive driven about 40 miles since this has happened and yet to see any water in the oil , so maybe thats a good sign that its just the gasket ?

 

well I took of the pass side head and the gasket looks decent , what I did notice is that the #2,4 pistons r at the same depth in thge cylinder ... Is that the way its suppose to be and the 6,8 pistons r at the bootm of the cylinder about the same ... I assume that they r suppose to be staggered .... does that mean anything? and as far as the head it looks decent alot of carbon build up at the top of the cylinder....does this mean that Im gonna end up having to "throw a motor at it "