is this a cylinder head gasket failure?

ould well be, is it using coolant?

beerismygas explained :

Sounds like rust or rusty water entering the cylinder, lots of it. I would also expect lots of water loss and lots of gunge around the oil filler.

whats puzzling me is that the problem is intermittent.i ve been driving around all day today without problems.

under what conditions can a head gasket problem be intermittant?

also i am reading that the red rust like deposits on the plug mught be remains from LRP additive and that coolant leves a green color on the plugs. But if this was so, wouldnt all plugs be red colored? why just those two adjacent ones?

thx

Thus spake beerismygas ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) unto the assembled multitudes:

The gasket leak(s), if any, would only affect the cylinders which are leaking, so only their plugs would show this discolouration. Have you checked your engine oil recently? If your head gasket is blown then there would probably also be an escape of coolant into the oil, which isn't a good thing. Why not take the car to a motor mechanic and get it checked out, if you're not confident of diagnosing the problem yourself? Surely better than driving it around hoping the problem will just go away.