Internal Head Gasket/Oil smell in cabin

[Flip-Eye]

I'm starting to think I may have premature head gasket failure issues.


Symptions

-Smell of oil at startup and during deceleration through the vents.
Twice on startup in very cold weather, hint of fuel smell noticeable in vents.

-After burping rad and bleeding air from coolant nipple multiple times, bubbles can still be seen appearing in open rad cap. Air getting into coolant system from leaking gasket possible?

-Car has never overheated on me, fans are operating properly. Rad, thermostat, water pump are recent. Oil consumption is about 1 quart/3000 miles.

-There isn't an obvious coolant/oil mix going on. There are no external coolant leaks. There is no hint of burning coolant or oil from the tailpipe.

I brought the motor up to temp, and did a compression test. Everything checked out, +-180 on all 4 cylinders.

My question, would an internal head gasket leak be evident from a compression test? These symptoms have occurred for a while, is it possible to run a internally leaking head gasket for a long while? Is there something else to check?

[cb7 calling]

How often do you have to add coolant, and how much?

[Flip-Eye]

Haven't had to add any in the past few days, just after burping the first few times.

[cb7 calling]

If you don't lose water or have oil/water mix then looking at a headgasket where do you think the leak could be? Unless you proceed to lose water I would think the head gasket is fine. And to answer your question about driving on a bad head gasket. I added about 8 oz of water/coolant a day for 5-7 thousand miles on a d17a2. It would still run without smoking it just sounded like metal on metal banging before I pulled it.