Headgasket...? It's just a tad at the bottom of the stick. It's the exact same color as the crap i'm getting out of the pcv valve so now i have a breather on that and the oil cap. Should i put a catch can on or do you think it will be ok the way it is?

What else could cause that milky junk. It has to be moisture from somewhere, and it has never drank coolant. The oil was just changed about 3 weeks ago and i didn't notice any milk y anything in the oil.

Anything I should check? Maybe change the oil again and see if it comes back...

 

Water in your oil man.

 

yup...water

 

You've either cracked something, or a gasket is bad.

 

That's bad news. You drive through any massive puddles lately and have bogging issues after? Other wise I'd say your hg is fuct. Do a compression/leakdown test.

 

eeep i just sold my grand am with a blown headgasket for $500 good luck with that man defiantely water in your oil :/

 

the compression check will help, but for me it came back good and my hg was still blown. leakdown test might get some results if the compression check does not.

 

Sounds like it would be water

 

What could have i cracked...

 

If you do alot of short trips with your car when it's cold it might be just condensation.. We see alot of it at the garage this time of year. Check your coolant and make sure it's not starting to look like there is oil in it. If your coolant is clean then there is a good chance that it's just condensation. Take it for a 20-30 minute drive once a week or so and it should prevent it. Good luck.

 

Well it could be a of things... w it being so cold up there you could have easily got to much water in the block and cracked the block. Or it could easily a engine internals causing it. But its probably just a bad head gasket.

 

you could be pumpin coolant through your intake mani aswell... do you have a dual pass or have you ever taken your intercooler endplate off? those o rings on the cores and the endplate gasket can stretch if you have had them off, allowing coolant to pass through your intake mani directly into your head... also did your coolant level change? did it get lower? thats the first thing i would check... is there white smoke coming out of your exhaust? thats a tell tale sign of a blown hg.

 

or quit giving your car protien injections

 

aww yea, mega man shakes dnt work on cars bro... or humans for that matter...lmao
the lubricity properties just arent there... sorry

 

i wasent talking about shakes

 

lol well i did feed her some z max a few days ago and thought that may be it. But doubtful...and my coolant is still completely full and really clean like always. Thats what i was thinking condensation, it has been super cold last couple weeks. i work outside all day so i feel the pain my car is going through :P

I do have the fans running all the time and my operating temp never even hits 180 during the winter. Think that has anything to do with it? I can't see how i would have cracked the block, and i have never had the end plate or intake mai off.

I'm gonna change the oil again tomorrow and keep checking it. if it comes back i'll know something is def up. the top of the valve cover is perfectly clean like always too. I mean as far as i can see with a flash light. You would think it would be everywhere if i did have water getting in the oil.

 

what did you do w your used oil... if you can drain it into a milk jug or somethin it will seperate over time. then you can see if its water or coolant.

 

My bet is it's just condensation.

 

check your headbolts by taking off the valve cover. there are 10 main headbolts and i know of a few cases where these have failed, including my own. they are TTY (torque-to-yield) and can stretch if there is too much stress in the combustions chambers, and the head starts to lift.

the head gasket is fairly stout for a stock piece. they are MLS (multi-layer steel) and very rarely are they the problem

 

Ok i will do that tonight. I'm gonna change the oil again and set the old stuff in a jug to see if it separates. How will i be able to tell if the head bolts failed? What am i looking for? I was going to go with the ARP head studs when i do the valve springs and neutral delete shafts, but wasn't planning on that for a while yet

 

well if they are loose they have streched beyond service limits

 

head studs are never a bad idea. i have seen stock headbolts fail at lightly modded levels. think stage 2.

if they have stretched, they will be loose. mine were loose, i could loosen them the rest of the way by hand (and i would have, if they weren't so damn long)

they should be tight enough that you can't budge them (obviously)

 

Head studs were tight, and there was only a small amount of milk that collected around the valve cover gasket. I doubt very much it's the HG. It must just be condensation. Checked my plugs too they were burning good. Cam lobes also look awesome. I'll just keep checking it periodically to make sure it doesn't get worse