coolant turned to poop?

[lil' jon]

I think I may have a serious problem with my coolant system. A few weeks ago I noticed that the antifreeze was a little on the orange side, and I figured "no big deal it's just really old" so I went to the local parts store and bought a radiator back flush kit. Hooked it up to the garden hose, ran the engine, and let water run through it until it was crystal clear again. Then I filled it up with 11 quarts of coolant. I noticed a small leak that seemed to be coming from the bottom of the coolant overflow. Again I figured it wasn't a big deal because I assumed it was just trickling down from the top of the overflow. Well Today I went to go make sure I still had plenty of coolant and this is what I found:

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Scared the **** outta me to say the least.
It's not even a liquid it's like cookie batter or something, as seen here:

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Obviously I don't know what the hell to make of this and I'd really appreciate your 2 cents. Thanks guys

[lil' jon]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

why isn't photobucket working for me? haha

[josh98bird]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

thats um???? thats some crazy **** right there. Maybe a blown headgasket and oil mixing in, or maybe nobody every changed the fluids and there was alot of rust mixing in. Try flushing it out a few more time, and I mean flushing by taking it somewhere and letting them flush it out. Then if that doesn't fix it, I'd take it to someone.

[josh98bird]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

why isn't photobucket working for me? haha

the first links worked, but you had the word S$IT in it so therefore someone has to link that in the address bar and change the ****.

[youngsc]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

Because your pics have the word **** in them, change the name to something other than **** and the **** should work right.

[lil' jon]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

ok here it is:



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[lil' jon]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

sorry they're out of focus the camera was too close

[youngsc]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

What the hell was in that stuff? It looks like it just ate away and corroded the hell out of your system. Reflush with something a little less potent.

[lil' jon]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

I just ran straight tap water through it.

[lil' jon]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

I'm geussing I probably should have used distilled water? I let all of the tap water drain out before I put the coolant in, and I used prestone 50/50 premixed

[youngsc]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

I think distilled is what is recomended. Never thought it would make that much of a diff though.

[97rs4life]

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wow, that is going to take some serious flushing to get all of that crap out of there. That is some of the worst that I have seen. Usually it is a few chunks floating but you can still see the coolant. Yours is solid poop. lol

might take 2-3 flushes to get it all out. Use distilled water also

[lil' jon]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

how should I go about pumping distilled water through the radiator? I don't get it, it wasn't half that bad when I flushed it a few weeks ago.

[97rs4life]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

take it to a shop or drain it out through the bottom. Do a search for how to flush a radiater and there are some writeups on this site for it.

For me I go to our shop and just hook up the machine. :)

[LETZRIDE]

Re: coolant turned to poop?

wow...that definitly looks like sumone **** in your system lol. Only thing I can think of is possibly a blown intake gasket and oil is getting in? I know when my gasket went it was a colour like that only a little darker and I had chunks on my coolant check stick... Hows your oil level? and how was your oil level previously? i.e before your last oil change, where u running low?

If it is a blown head gasket you can check by leaving the rad cap off and start the car, and watch for bubbles. If you see a steady flow of bubbles coming to the top then its your head gasket.

my guess would still be intake gasket tho, I do believe it is a common problem on the 3.8's if im not mistaken