so how could i tell if the oil has been mixed with antifreeze due to a leaking head gasket?

 

when oil mixes with water it turns white. Check your oil and see if there's any white residue, this will tell you if there's water in your oil. For the radiator i'd just drain it in a bucket and check the liquid. its fairly easy.

 

An oil/coolant mixture will look like poop (literally). It will be brown and viscous. If yours was mixing, you would be able to tell immediately when you pull the valve cover. It will not look at all like the oil your put in the engine last time.

Do you see white smoke coming out of your tailpipe?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ddd4114 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">An oil/coolant mixture will look like poop (literally). It will be brown and viscous. If yours was mixing, you would be able to tell immediately when you pull the valve cover. It will not look at all like the oil your put in the engine last time.

Do you see white smoke coming out of your tailpipe?</TD></TR></TABLE>

oh i was thinking water for some reason instead of anti-freeze. Sorry disregard my post

 

lol its okay, but uhh when i did do a oil change which was past about 2000 mile from my regular 3000 mile oil change, the oil did seem sort of brown and seemed as it did lose some viscosity. unless it was because i warmed my car first.

 

An oil/coolant mixture will have high viscosity. If your oil is brown and not viscous, you don't have a blown head gasket. It might still be leaking, but it has not completely failed.

 

oil cap and dipstick will be milky if you been driving it long enough....if not drain the oil

 

what do you exactly mean by milky?

 

it will look like chocolate milk

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 99blackcivicSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it will look like chocolate milk </TD></TR></TABLE>
Yeah. I think that's a much better comparison than "poop" actually...

 

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Yeah. I think that's a much better comparison than "poop" actually...</TD></TR></TABLE>

of all the motors i have installed due to a severe headgasket failure, or all the nissan waterpumps i have put in (it pours coolant into the oil pan when you remove it on a vg or vq chain motor) i have never seen it look like "poop". Lightly mixed chocolate milk is the best description i can give.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 99blackcivicSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">of all the motors i have installed due to a severe headgasket failure, or all the nissan waterpumps i have put in (it pours coolant into the oil pan when you remove it on a vg or vq chain motor) i have never seen it look like "poop". Lightly mixed chocolate milk is the best description i can give.</TD></TR></TABLE>
When mine was blown, it looked like there was a thin layer of mud on the inside of my engine. It looked like sort of like chocolate milk, but it was not a homogeneous mixture. I couldn't think of the best description, and I personally do not want to get a reminder of its appearance.

Whatever the case, I'm sure the OP gets the idea. It looks "not normal".

 

you know milky