Ok, thank you to those of you who submitted answers to the heat problem question. Now I have a new problem. My husband talked to a mechanic we know before he was going to replace the thermostat and that man said before you do that, maybe you got some air in the hoses and he should bleed them first. So he did this and it made a difference in the heat. So a day or so later, the car was getting hot again. So he checked the radiator and he added fluid it was lacking. A day or two later the car again was hot and agian he needed to add fluid. We then parked the car and a few days later when another friend returned ( happens to be the brother of the mechanic, so he knows a bit too from working with his brother)from hunting and they went out and turned the car on. I have lifter knocks and my oil is now like pudding. He said that we probably warped or cracked a head running the car hot. He said we would need to replace the heads or head gaskets or possibly need a new engine and that my cars engine is a piece of crap. We bought this for a minute, well then we decided to call around to a few shops and find out how much to replace the possible problems. I called a shop that was recommened to us from my father in law and the guy I talked to asked me exactly what happened. I explained everything until I got to the oil like pudding part and he said, I have seen that a thousand times in your car, and 100% of the time it was not the head or the head gasket, it was in fact the intake gasket. My new question is does anyone else have any expierence with this?? I mean this would be cheaper to fix. But my hubby and his mechanic friend both said they dont understand how the water could get into the oil from the intake gasket. The car will have to wait until next week before we can do anything any way so I figured I would see what the rest of you said! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE