Cylinder 1 misfire help

mgcorreia

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I have a 1997 Toyota 4 runner, 4cyl, manual transmission with 219k miles. I've been losing a lot of coolant lately, traced to a blown head gasket I discovered. I poured the Blue Devil head gasket repair stuff in as a temporary fix until I can get some time to properly fix it. Its been about two weeks now and although I am retaining the coolant now I'm getting a misfire in my cylinder 1 that previously only occurred when I started the car up cold that is occurring more frequently now. My question is if the misfire is directly related to my blown head gasket?

A little background here... I had a misfire in my cylinder 4 approx. a year and 14k miles ago. I ended up replacing the coil pack to cylinder 4 and 1, put in new wires, new spark plugs, and ultimately new fuel injectors.... the later is what ultimately solved the misfire. So everything here is up to par. Is this thing going to keep misfiring until I suck it up and replace the head gasket? The Blue Devil stuff was money back guaranteed... kinda a disappointment. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
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I did another blue devil treatment. Seems to be running fine for now. Its guaranteed so I hope I can get my $ back if it misfires again. What brand head gasket kit do you guys recommend? Any good threads on here you guys can recommend to me for how to do this? thanks
 
Crap, that blue devil stuff doesn't do jack. I drove home from work today and was wondering why my belts were squeaking.. Its because coolant is leaking out the block and slashing the belts. My dipstick shows a super high level of oil, confirming there is coolant in there. I'm not driving anymore, time to operate. Pls Let me know whats a good headgasket brand replacement for my car. thanks
 

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