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sorry to say but your symptoms are exactly what my '97 aero had when the hg failed. The car measured perfect compression but would slowly leak to the coolant if you put compressed air in the spark plug hole. You are leaking to the water jacket in cyl 1 and isn't big enough yet. The shinny sludge you see is the coolant cleaning the carbon off the top of your piston. I did the job myself over a weekend. You spend most of the job on your feet so it's really not that bad. Reading up on here and a haynes was all I used. Let me know if you have any more questions. A great way to save ~ $1000 by doing it yourself. My '97 had the "new style" head bolts but I found new "old style" bolts from Eeuroparts.com. Read SWEDECAR's posts on this.
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