im sure it didnt help...but what we can confirm is at some point before i bought it there was a hairline crack in the head that spread (this explains my hard to start problems when i first go it)..then the hotter plugs basically cashed the head in...coupled with poor compressions and probably anitfreeze leaking in through the hairline crack finally blew those cracks wide open and also (though i didnt know it then) destroyed the oil pump (antifreeze damage) and cracked the bottom, and the piston was burned through. replaced the head, busted oil pump cashed in the bottom half of the engine, destroyed the #3 piston and that was that.