]so tonight i tore my 06 ss/sc apart to fix what i thaught was a head gasket becuse of the lose of cooant and smokeing on start up so i put coolant dye in just the engine coolant and when i pulled the dip stick and oil filter i find glowing dye with a black eye frome the coolant so i as going to put a head gasket on so when i pull the sc and intake manfield i find coolant in the intake ports of the head that clows with a black light frome the dye and i allso find coolant in the intake manfiold like in the end plate where the sc hoses hook up what i know is normal and it does not glow but theer was glowing coolant in the intake ports of the intake manfiold but that what is so i dont know whaere to start can the 2 coolants mix some how or some help would be greately apperciated here are some pics of the glowing filter and head allso the filter seems to be twisted normal or not ?????

 

pull your oil drain plug and see if you have coolant in your oil

 

Yeah i had a little bit of white sludge in the filler cap and peopel told me thats was normal condesation but i dont think so

 

Id also pressure test it you can rent a pressure tester from autozone for free but definitely make sure there is no coolant in that oil i had the exact same symptoms and it ended up being a cracked block and warped head.

 

i have it tore apart right now but i can just put the hose back on th the heasd i guess and presure test the engine coolant where was your air leak coming frome

 

it was between cylinders 2 and 3 there was a crack in the block.

 

but how did that get coolan into the intake manfiold and how did u here the air leak with the comp tester todetermin that or did u just tear it a par

 

only way i can think of is if your getting coolant in your cylinder and its burning off (explains the white smoke) and the excess is which are probably very trace amounts are somehow getting into your manifold when the valve opens.

i did a compression test however it did not yield any results it may or may not for you but when i pulled the oil drain plug pretty much pure coolant poured out and that's when i knew.Is your car ticking?

 

yes it does i replaced the chain tensioner cause i thaught it was bad and it still ticks on start up for about 2 or 3 min and then goes away,, can u tell me what the port beside the bolt hole on the head and intake manfiold is and what it does,, and how about that oil filter it looks colapsed u think it has any thing to do with it

 

Im not sure what the hole is and perhaps this can give you the reasoning behind the filter http://www.machinerylubrication.com/...?articleid=398 but im almost 100% sure there is a crack somewhere in your engine and your coolant is mixing with the oil thinning it out causing the tick. this is very bad for your head and may lead to head problems like mine did. Are you still under warranty?

 

nope not uner warrnty bought it used frome a used joint pulling the motor and doing head gasket and checking the head for cracks and all that good stuff going to pull the oil pan also and clean all the oil sludge out my dad has been a diesel mechanic for 30 years and he said that the sludge looks like that some one ran regular oil thourg it becuse a girl had it before me so im guessing she ddi not take good care of it thanks for aall of ur help

 

not a problem and if it happens to be a sleeve darton just came out with their sleeve kit for the lsj so your in luck.

 

have you ever had your endplate off? those o rings on the laminova cores and the endplate seal should be replaced when you take it off. they can stretch and not provide a proper seal and that cpuld explain why you have coolant in your intake mani and in your intake ports. this happened to me actually. just a thought. i hope everythign works out for ya

 

the port you are referring to is the PCV opening to the intake, see the thread
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l-lsj-performance-tech-47/alert%2A%2Adipstick-popping-out-here-solution-39770/

also the endplate orings have gotten me before as well.

build time in either case...think of this as a welcome opertunity

 

It's offically blown most likely. If you got coolant in your head where you can see the valves once you take off the intake manifold. You might of brke a valve or something. Most likely it's blown though thats not good to see just in the pictures. rebuild time or new motor.

 

Where did you put the dye in? Just in the engine coolant or the SC intercooler system?

If you put dye in the SC coolant system then there should be dye inside the intake manifold by the endplate.

 

no i only put dye in the engine coolant

 

Hopefully it doesn't look like this!

 

dammm did u crack a sleve or is that not a sleve is that just a cracked block