I have been using anti-freeze like crazy. I have no leaks anywhere and if I had a blown head gasket or a cracked head where the coolant would be entering the motor it would show in the oil and it doesn't. It doesn't smoke at all either. I'm not sure what to do!!!

 

Although I've never had to do it, I understand a simple pressure test is the best way to check a cooling system. You simply pump air into the system and see if the pressure goes down as water is forced through any cracks or openings.

 

Oil pressure is purposely higher in water cooled engines so the water or antifreeze will not be able to buck the preasure of the oil.

A cracked head or bad water pump seals will fill the crank case with water or antifreeze when the engine is shut down.

What you are describing is a bad head gasket it sounds like. Some times the engine needs to get hot for it to happen and some times it starts soon as you start it.

Take off the radiator cap and watch the liquid when you start it. You will see air bubbles coming from the liquid. This is compression leakage from the combustion chamber to the water jackets.

Also take a look at the spark plug. It's hard to say what it will look like but alot of times it looks like you went lean, but others it looks like you went rich. Any way thier is a performance loss some were in the power. Doing a compression test is a real good idea, but if you don't know what it was to start with, well how would you know what it dropped too.

Hope this heps some.

 

Can you ever smell antifreeze...?

 

gaff is right you might wanna do a compression test.sometimes your head gasket can be bad and you may not be able to notice a significant loss in power or performance and the leak may not be that bad and it burns the coolant up in such small amounts that you will not notice smoke.but if you let it go long enough you will notice smoke eventually.as head gaskets never get better or repaiur them selves.my best idea would be topull the head and machine it .010 or less just to make sure it's flat and replace the head gasket.good luck.