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Good god...I pray it's not a blown head gasket
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Thought I was smelling some exhaust in the cabin, but I've been bottoming out on my driveway regularly and thought my Y-pipe was busted.
Saw *some* white "smoke" in my exhaust...but not an alarming amount (not enough to see behind me when cruising down the road). Only ever noticed it on/at start up standing behind the car (never really checked after the car was actually warmed up). Bought the car 3k+ miles ago, got an oil change ASAP. The previous owner had it for 2 years but was always out of town so he only drove it ~2k miles. Figuring it had been over a year since the oil was changed, I only kept the oil for about 1,700 miles and did another change. The oil came out light, which I had never seen, but I had also never changed my oil after only 1,700. Thinking back I feel like it looked slightly milky, but I was attributing anything out of the ordinary to the fact that I had changed it way before 3k miles. My imagination is running wild with paranoia and I feel like it definitely looked like coffee that had been 50/50'd with heavy creamer...but I know I'm blowing it way out of proportion. I bought a fancy "pressure release tab" radiator cap and leaked some anti-freeze before I put the OEM cap back on and just figured if I was low on coolant it was just because of the stupid cap I bought (and returned). I attached a picture of coolant I just siphoned next to fresh/clean coolant I was about to add. ANY insight other than paying $2,000 for a head gasket repair? |
Send the oil to blackstone.
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Unfortunately that was ~1,500 miles ago...oil's long gone.
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The oil that is in there now will have water in it if the HG is blown.
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That coolant looks a lot better than mine lol.
Milky oil is not good though. Just do the Blackstone test like ecabriolet said. |
Oh I see what you're saying! Alright...I'll look into it.
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Compression test and then a leak down test...if it makes you feel better I'm fixing my HG...sh!t happens
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god doesn't get involved with blown head gaskets
Originally Posted by ryanmay.22
(Post 10467457)
Thought I was smelling some exhaust in the cabin, but I've been bottoming out on my driveway regularly and thought my Y-pipe was busted.
Saw *some* white "smoke" in my exhaust...but not an alarming amount (not enough to see behind me when cruising down the road). Only ever noticed it on/at start up standing behind the car (never really checked after the car was actually warmed up). Bought the car 3k+ miles ago, got an oil change ASAP. The previous owner had it for 2 years but was always out of town so he only drove it ~2k miles. Figuring it had been over a year since the oil was changed, I only kept the oil for about 1,700 miles and did another change. The oil came out light, which I had never seen, but I had also never changed my oil after only 1,700. Thinking back I feel like it looked slightly milky, but I was attributing anything out of the ordinary to the fact that I had changed it way before 3k miles. My imagination is running wild with paranoia and I feel like it definitely looked like coffee that had been 50/50'd with heavy creamer...but I know I'm blowing it way out of proportion. I bought a fancy "pressure release tab" radiator cap and leaked some anti-freeze before I put the OEM cap back on and just figured if I was low on coolant it was just because of the stupid cap I bought (and returned). I attached a picture of coolant I just siphoned next to fresh/clean coolant I was about to add. ANY insight other than paying $2,000 for a head gasket repair? |
Originally Posted by tommy smith
(Post 10467566)
I pray that I wake up tomorrow. Please don't overload god's work.
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