someone pleaae help, head gasket?!?!
Okay so I own a 98 gt mustang with 110k miles its an auto, and when I bought the car it had oil in the xoolant but not in the oil, the guy I bought it from said that it was the oil cooler gaskets, so I changed them and still no difference, so then a week later I was driving and it started overheating bad, and when I shut it off it bubbles and steam coming from reservoir, and let me state that I have put 2 quarts of oil in it and drove 4 miles to the house I checked the oil and none
.. so somewhere. It is going into my coolant,
So ive taken tboth valve covers off and the weird thing is on the passanger side head there is light rust on cam lobes, and starting to build up rust where the timing chain is, but the other head is clean ?? Im so confuse
.. so somewhere. It is going into my coolant,
So ive taken tboth valve covers off and the weird thing is on the passanger side head there is light rust on cam lobes, and starting to build up rust where the timing chain is, but the other head is clean ?? Im so confuse
Just to clarify, you went thru over 2 quarts of oil in 4 miles ???
And your coolant has a layer of oil on the top of it ?
It sounds like you do have a bad head gasket if your coolant level was correct before. Not that it was low and just overheated.
I don't know of anyway that much oil can be getting into your cooling system. It's under pressure, so and bad seal or gasket will leak coolant as it's trying to get out. Except around the head gasket, where combustion will pressurize your cooling system thru a bad head gasket.
And your coolant has a layer of oil on the top of it ?
It sounds like you do have a bad head gasket if your coolant level was correct before. Not that it was low and just overheated.
I don't know of anyway that much oil can be getting into your cooling system. It's under pressure, so and bad seal or gasket will leak coolant as it's trying to get out. Except around the head gasket, where combustion will pressurize your cooling system thru a bad head gasket.
Yeah I qaa really surprised also, i took the thermostat out and looked in the housing and it was all fresh oil, i will upload photos as soon as I get home, alot of people said it could be cracked intake but that doesn't explain why I have oil I coolant, and also, when I was checking the exhaust ports they had oil in them only and not the Intake
[QUOTE=Brian1664;8478575]Yeah I qaa really surprised also, i took the thermostat out and looked in the housing and it was all fresh oil, i will upload photos as soon as I get home, alot of people said it could be cracked intake but that doesn't explain why I have oil I coolant, and also, when I was checking the exhaust ports "the same side with the little bit of rust on the head" they had oil in them only and not the Intake
This is a tough one, a gasket went bad somewhere, either intake, or head, or both. Or like you said a cracked intake, or block. Won't know for sure till you start tearing into it a little deeper. Good luck and I'll wait for the pics.
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