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i have this gunk in my cooling jacket..wtf (with pics)

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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 11:20 AM
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Default i have this gunk in my cooling jacket..wtf (with pics)

so i open this b18a that had bent a valve when i relize that the area around the cyl. has this jelly substance. anybody ever seen this??





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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 02:28 PM
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head gasket leak?? looks like early stages of oil and coolant mixing....
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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 02:35 PM
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could also be incompatable coolant mixing. IE: dexcool+greenstuff.

contaminated dexcool turns into junk like that.
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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 02:53 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by krustindumm &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">could also be incompatable coolant mixing. IE: dexcool+greenstuff.

contaminated dexcool turns into junk like that.</TD></TR></TABLE>
thanks for the reply thats probably it, im going to check out the wtr pump
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Old Jul 17, 2005 | 03:08 PM
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Looks like somebody never changes their coolant. Looks to be mixed in with a little Radiator stop leak too.
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