Houston I think we have a Problem

[White95]

I was changing my oil this afternoon and when I went to drain my drain pan I found some **** that I'm pretty sure should be in my oil. After drainning 95% of my oil I realized that there was a water layer on top of the oil. When you look at the pan it looks greenish. When I wipe my finger in the oil and look at my finger the oil is clear almost. I'm thinking its coolant seeing as just a couple of weeks ago I switched to the green coolant. When I held the pan at an angle the oil reveled some whiteish gunk. The gunk was thick too. This is the first time I've noticed this stuff. I'll post pics of the crap latter in the evening. What the hack is wrong with my car!?!?!?!?!?!

[hockeyman]

Head gasket on it's way out.

[CAMAROWIDBASS]

Expect a large mechanic bill. Its your head gasket, its best not to drive the car any more.

It ran me $650 to fix mine at a shop.

[BLLDOGG]

time to learn how to replace a head gasket.....psshhhh, roger that.

[MustangEater8251]

Head gasket...

nows a good time to learn how to do it...

gonna cost a pretty penny to have a shop do it. It will probably cost you less then $80 to do it yourself, and $600-800 for a shop to do it, its all labor.

[Ian]

yep. what everyone else said.


antifreeze in oil = head gasket

[user1101]

Originally posted by White95:
After drainning 95% of my oil I realized that there was a water layer on top of the oil.

I'd like to congratulate you for being the first human in the history of the world to get water to float on top of oil. That's incredible.

[BLLDOGG]

[img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img] i didnt even catch tht when i read it

[White95]

When I said water layer I ment that there was a noticable reflection off the top to notice the greenish color not that it was actually water. This was at the bottom of the pan too. I figured that the coolant was my head gasket on its way out. If it replace the gasket and spend the time doing it all I might as well rebuild the top end of the engine now instead of end of summer. My question is where did the whiteish gunk crap come from. I'm sure that crap is real great for the motor.

Heres the crappy pics I took:
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/288292/6

How long would this repair take? Its a good thing I bought new air tools with my grad money the other day.

[94TeaL]

Well if your good maybe a few days.. But yea rebuild that top end while down there..

[White95]

Ya well changed my coolant today it was a mix of green and brown color and smelled like crap. My car is running fine as far as I can tell. What other signs are there for a bad head gasket?

[94TeaL]

White smoke when you rev is up, kinda smelly..

[Distephano]

Originally posted by White95:
Ya well changed my coolant today it was a mix of green and brown color and smelled like crap. My car is running fine as far as I can tell. What other signs are there for a bad head gasket?

Other Signs, aside from Coolant in the oil?
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Oil in the Coolant :D

No really. Odds are if there is coolant in your oil and oil in your coolant, your head gasket is gone. I wouldn't recommend driving the car while you keep looking for "Other Signs" You will end up doing much worse damage.

[White95]

The only reason I'm looking for other signs is b/c there was only a greenish reflection not noticable coolant. My car is running normally that is why I'm douting myself

[White95]

Well I figured out what the gunk stuff was. I left the drain pan sit out in the yard the last couple days and theres been lots of rain. Well I came outside to put away the pan to find that the pan had more of the gunk in it. My guess it that the minerals water and oil mix together to form this ****. I guess I'm screwed now and need to start planning on how I'm going to fix it.