Need advice on brother's 2002 Dodge Dakota

Oh, he can be pretty sure he's got combustion chamber gases in the coolant. But the question is whether it's the head gasket or something worse.

--scott

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Scott Dorsey
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Yeah, that would be my worry. That the engine lost coolant (for some reason probably unrelated to the engine- like a hose or radiator leak), was overheated, cracked a head or the block or at least warped a head, and now has a built-in leak. All the Dakota engines from 96 onward- the

3.9 v6 (5.2 minus 2 cylinders), post '96 2.5 (actually the Jeep 2.5 that is related to the Jeep 4.0 inline 6), the 5.2 v8, the 4.7 v8, and the 3.7 v7 (4.7 minus two cylinders) are very rugged and not prone to blowing head gaskets without, shall we say, provocation.
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