What is this in my oil?
What is this in my oil? i went to check my oil today and theres all this yellow crap inside the cap. it looks like theres moisture in there and it kinda smells like gas. is there something wrong and what could cause this?
If you do a search, I'm sure you'll come up with the same thing, and usually posted from around this time of year. It is usually associated with short trips during cold weather when the oil doesn't get hot enough to burn off whatever is in there. It just collects on the bottom of the cap...nothing wrong with it. Just clean it off, and keep that in mind when you hop in your hoopty to run a short errand.
You probably take a bunch of short trips and moisture has accumulated in the oil. Might try taking a nice long half hour to one hour trip to boil out the moisture. Ill be its gone after that.
Originally Posted by GuitsBoy
You probably take a bunch of short trips and moisture has accumulated in the oil. Might try taking a nice long half hour to one hour trip to boil out the moisture. Ill be its gone after that.
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if you are losing coolant more than likely you have lifted a head and you are mixing coolant in with your oil,and i would not drive that car any more because antifreeze eats the hell out of bearings
just a fyi
hopefully it is something really simple but prepare for the worst
just a fyi
hopefully it is something really simple but prepare for the worst
Could be short trips, but On the 3.8/3.1/3.4 motors when you see that its almost 100% that the lower intake is leaking or blown head gasket. On the ls1 it cant be the lower intake of course. But that looks like coolant mixing with oil.
Kyle
Kyle
it depends on how bad the gasket is blown.....and where the coolant is going. if it is a small prob it will just push a little coolant past into the oil. Even still where else would he be getting coolant into his oil from?
Its real easy. If the coolant is full, its not a head gasket. Ive seen this on my car numerous times. Ive seen posts here numerous times. Everyone screams headgasket, but then they find the radiator still full. If the radiator is a few inches low, then its worth digging a little deeper. Get it pressure tested to find out for sure.
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Same thing happened to my LS1. I opened the oil cap one day, and there was yellow gunk all over the inside, along with moisture and more yellow gunk on the dipstick. I'll admit, first thing I said was head gasket. I pulled the PCV system apart (had it disconnected due to oil consumption) and it was all plugged up with crap. However, the oil on the dipstick was clean and brown, no water spots or gunk there, which told me that it most likely wasn't a head gasket.
I cleaned out the oil cap and dipstick, changed the oil, and converted to breather filters on both valve covers. Also drilled out the oil cap and stuck a breather filter in that to vent it out.
Checked it a couple weeks ago, and it seems good. Still a slight amount of condensation, but thats normal. Not even close to the amount of crap that was in there before. I also raised the temps on the electric fans via my Hypertech tuner, from 180 degrees to 195 "optomized", so that the motor would get warmer and burn off more moisture.
I cleaned out the oil cap and dipstick, changed the oil, and converted to breather filters on both valve covers. Also drilled out the oil cap and stuck a breather filter in that to vent it out.
Checked it a couple weeks ago, and it seems good. Still a slight amount of condensation, but thats normal. Not even close to the amount of crap that was in there before. I also raised the temps on the electric fans via my Hypertech tuner, from 180 degrees to 195 "optomized", so that the motor would get warmer and burn off more moisture.
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Originally Posted by navymitch12
ok so if that is what you are calling it (not saying your wrong) what would cause this to all the sudden happen.
