Finally pulled the engine out and its a goner

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Originally Posted by Jake Raby

This is not a characteristic failure for a 3.2 as they have the tickets of all cylinders. The failure is also at a strange position of the cylinder thats not typical. Had you recently had the cooling system opened up for any reason?

This failure also generally occurs with cylinders 2 or 5..

But, the only thing that stays the same with our research and these engines is that everything continually changes.

I have not had anything done to the cooling system. Why do you ask?

Not sure if this piece of info is helpful but I drove like this for two seasons no noise ever and never overheated even driving for hours straight