I've had a catch can half-assedly hooked up for a few hundred miles, meaning it was hooked up to the valve cover and PCV but not to the intake pipe on the turbo because I was too busy/lazy to tap it...

After those few hundred miles it had about 2-4 oz. of watery/puke looking stuff in it, like indonesian peanut sauce (if anyone knows that) and smelled like gas. My question is WTF?
There is NO coolant in my oil, nor oil in my coolant, so is this just a mixture of the vapors from the engine and condensation from the open port to the atmosphere? Anyone have any pics of their engine spunk?

 

the only splooge my engine showed me was this

 

just an indication that it likes boost.... THAT MUCH

 

seriously man, that looks sketchy dripping out of a hole what the hell is that crap, anyway?

 

looks like burnt coolant

 

i believe its flubber. take some and throw it on the ground and see if it bounces.

 

hahaha!!

 

ive seen that **** in the bottom of my oil pan before. i too, believe it is flubber.

 

Actually that is coolant mixed with oil. Go to your garage and mix a little coolant and oil in a waterbottle, shake it really hard and you will get the same stuff, except when its heated it turns gooeyier.

I dont think its a good sign. When mine did that, I had a slightly blown headgasket.


[Modified by intekragsr, 7:27 PM 4/5/2003]

 

i vote for new headgasket...

mike

 

just curious, but how does one obtain a "slightly" blown headgasket?

 

Well......I was over heating slighty at idle, and I was slightly losing oil/coolant, and when I inspected it, it was slightly cracked. So instead of slightly blown, I guess it was slighty cracked

 

its like honda's ECU's and their fuzzy logic nature. The extra conditions of boolean, almost true, almost false

mike

 

are you talking about my description or his pic? My "spooge" doesn't have a greenish tint to it, it's really about the color of peanut butter...I'm not having any driveability issues and no smoke from the exhaust or fluids where they shouldn't be, so if my gasket was blown, would it hurt to put off changing it for a couple thousand miles or so? I'll be out of school in May and I was planning on rebuilding anyway...

 

Collant and oil won't mix. I have a milk jug half oil and half coolant, coolant is all at the top. And doesn't look like that when shaken either.

 

i don't think u can shake it at 8000rpm+

mike

 

My picture is from when I used pure coolant in my motor for like a year. I was told those chunks and goo is the silica precipitating out of the coolant due to lack of distilled water... it was kinda sandy

 

interesting.

 

My friend ran his '87 Blazer with a dead head gasket for 3 weeks or so a while back. Needless to say, that engine died. ALL the coolant and oil had turned into that "spooge" stuff... nasty...

At least doing the swap was fun