my water is milky. like REAL milky.. like not even milk. milk gone bad!! THICK!! grey... nasty milk.

so i figure DAMN!! blown head gasket??!

pull the dip stick. no water. oil is fine. yanked my finger into the crank case. pulled out clean smooth oil.

is it possible that i can mix oil into my water but not vise versa?

cracked block?

flushed the system just a min ago. will run the car tommarow, see if it milks again.

ideas?

BTW. got error 55, so im clean on the diags...

 

sure is. ive known a few people now who have had this happen to them. time for a hg swap.

 

well ive done a HG before on other cars. how bad is it on this one? should i just say funk it? and get me something else?

i dont want a huge PITA here

 

i just did mine read (bad news) it took about 2-3 hr tear down and about 4hr to put back together and this was the frist one i have done and it was not that bad hope that helps

 

yeah, figure around an 8 hr job to swap the headgasket if its your first time.

ive been able to do the sohc hg in ~4hrs total.. fairly quick, but ive done it a few times now.

 

Could be the little o-ring which seals the oil feed to the camshaft. This is fitted into a small hole in the head gasket. If the ring is bad, oil under pressure can leak into the water galleries at the head/block junction.

 

so its still doing it. its either a cracked block or that o-ring. how can i test this?

 

Sorry, thinking about a different engine, it's not an O-ring, but an aluminium ring built into the head gasket. No easy wat to test this, if you oil level drops and your coolant level rises, then the oil is passing into the coolant somewhere. Whatever is causing it, you'll have to take the head off anyway.

 

dang. well ima do a head gasket swap on it then, as well as a water pump and timing belt/tensioner. any special brand or type of head gasket to use to prevent this again? anything else i should replace on this sob during the tear down?

 

TTT