Coolant in my oil!!

[T-Mill]

I drained my oil today and there was an orange foam on top in the container I was draining into. Then when the drain slowed to a trickle, it became really thin and transparent and I caught it on a papertowel and it was definitely dex-cool. The oil gets changed every 3000 miles religiously. The oil was jet-black and I'm having some over-heating issues... how severe is my problem??!??!??

[camaro_speedemon]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

Normally when oil and coolant mix, it looks like chocolate milk.

Did it look like this?

[slow6]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

I can get a better picture, (no offense)
it looks like yogurt, but i dont think they have dexcool, its the mean green coolant

[T-Mill]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

It wasn't quite that bad, but I don't know if maybe they had seperated because it had been sitting so long, because It was black viscous oil at first and then it ran transparent and runny.

[T-Mill]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

It also seperated while sitting in the container, I just checked

[Harrison]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

if im not mistaken,i hope.....haha. i believe that would be caused by a bad head gasket. In which case it wouldn't be too hard to fix, just a real pain in the a$$.

[slow6]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

yogurt looking
usually means a bad head gasket or bad intake gaskets AT THE VERY LEAST.
It could be worse like cracked heads, cracked cylinder wall, etc...

[terminaldegree]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

Sorry to hear the bad news. Hopefully you caught it early enough that the rest of the engine is still ok. Don't wait to get it fixed.

[camaro_speedemon]

Re: Coolant in my oil!!

Yea, it sounds like it could be a headgasket or cracked block. If you don't know what you're doing, you're looking at an easy $1500+ to get it fixed. And deffinately try not to drive the car. It's just going to make the problem worse.