oil in coolant
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oil in coolant Checking fluid levels before a road trip showed low oil (~1qt) and oil in coolant (muddy). I did have a ps cooler house blow a few weeks earlier (noticed coolant under car at work). I walked away and took alternate car for trip.
Whatcha wanna chime in with? Flush and pressure test? I'm heading back home tomorrow, and ready to work on it. Dunno if coolant is in oil yet. I didn't notice it first pass on oil level check. D'oh!
-JS
PS this is LS6 transplantg in 00 WS6
Whatcha wanna chime in with? Flush and pressure test? I'm heading back home tomorrow, and ready to work on it. Dunno if coolant is in oil yet. I didn't notice it first pass on oil level check. D'oh!
-JS
PS this is LS6 transplantg in 00 WS6
Checking fluid levels before a road trip showed low oil (~1qt) and oil in coolant (muddy). I did have a ps cooler house blow a few weeks earlier (noticed coolant under car at work). I walked away and took alternate car for trip.
Whatcha wanna chime in with? Flush and pressure test? I'm heading back home tomorrow, and ready to work on it. Dunno if coolant is in oil yet. I didn't notice it first pass on oil level check. D'oh!
-JS
PS this is LS6 transplantg in 00 WS6
Whatcha wanna chime in with? Flush and pressure test? I'm heading back home tomorrow, and ready to work on it. Dunno if coolant is in oil yet. I didn't notice it first pass on oil level check. D'oh!
-JS
PS this is LS6 transplantg in 00 WS6
Good luck.
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Sounds like a blown head gasket.Do a compression test,pressure test and a leak down.Is the motor boosted or nos?If it's NA then it would have taken a lot of detonation to take out the gasket.Hope you didn't drive it with coolant in oil as that will kill the bearings.Oil wil not always show up on dip stick so change the oil and hope for no coolant.
Good luck.
Good luck.
-JS
Usually with a bad head gasket you get coolant in the oil making the oil look milky, not the other way around. It's kinda hard to get un-pressurized oil to squirt into the coolant passage in the head. SOMbitch is right the dexcool coolant that comes in it from the factory gets muddy and brown real easy... its garbage. As long as the oil looks good I would flush the cooling system with water and then put green coolant back in. Just make sure you get all the old coolant out first because you can't mix them.
If he has one of them Power Steering Coolers from the Factory, I can see that being the problem here..
He said that a PS Line blew off of that Cooler, and there was Coolant under the Car.
I have one of them Coolers, but I'm not using it, and it leaks Coolant out of both of the Hose Fittings on it. I have it Capped, but eventually I'm relacing that whole section with a solid Hose.
He said that a PS Line blew off of that Cooler, and there was Coolant under the Car.
I have one of them Coolers, but I'm not using it, and it leaks Coolant out of both of the Hose Fittings on it. I have it Capped, but eventually I'm relacing that whole section with a solid Hose.
If he has one of them Power Steering Coolers from the Factory, I can see that being the problem here..
He said that a PS Line blew off of that Cooler, and there was Coolant under the Car.
I have one of them Coolers, but I'm not using it, and it leaks Coolant out of both of the Hose Fittings on it. I have it Capped, but eventually I'm relacing that whole section with a solid Hose.
He said that a PS Line blew off of that Cooler, and there was Coolant under the Car.
I have one of them Coolers, but I'm not using it, and it leaks Coolant out of both of the Hose Fittings on it. I have it Capped, but eventually I'm relacing that whole section with a solid Hose.
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