i know milky oil usually leads to a head gasket/ coolant leak somewhere, but my milky oil is only on the bottom of the valve cover. The oil on my head and anywhere else you can see it without the valve cover on it looks completely normal, same with in the oil pan, the dipstick oil is normal too.








any info will be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Derek

 

condesation mixed in the oil

 

this just start happening? humidity and condensation can cause that. if everything else's fine (coolant has no oil and oil has no coolant), it'll all evaporate and go back to normal.

 

thanks thats a sigh of relief, yeah, i knew it had to be something simple because my car is running fine, i just took the vc off to get a new cam seal in there due to a small oil leak.

Thanks guys!
Derek

 

dont pull the valve cover alot without replacing the gasket...see this mistake alot..people thing they can keep tightening it down over and over and it will be ok...

 

Check your head gasket too.

 

clean the motor out do a full flush use some varsol in the oil 500ml only use half at a time put it in let the car idel DO NOT REV let idel for 3min then stop sit for 1 min then flush fill with thinest oil u can find run car agan for 10 min and repeat the the rest of the varsol and drain agan after 3min run ideling after done flush leave oil cap dip stick and oil pan drain off for 5 min to let dry then close it up and then take spark plugs out put a few drops of 5w30 down each cylinder let it sit then fill the oil up and the motor should be squeaky clean it will even clean a lot of the sluge out trust me got a motor super sluged almost like grease lol it worked like a charm

 

i have no clue what the hell youre even talking about. theres coolant/condensation under his valve cover and you want him to not only put varsol in his engine. then after that. run it with extremely thin oil so he can certainly ruin the rotating assembly.....or maybe im just missing something all together. but either way. what i would do...clean all the milky crap off as best you can, change the oil, drive the car for a day or so and keep checking under the oil cap. if it keeps doing it you have a problem. if not its most likely condensation as stated before.

 

more true words have never been spoken..

Not to freak you out, but you discovered the "milkshake effect" where your head gasket blows and it looks like someone spilled a chocolate milkshake under the valve cover.

You should do a compression test pronto to see if you have a low cylinder. You should also do an oil change and see if the rest of the oil is like that, or if it is only a little bit under the valve cover. The discoloration is a result of the oil being mixed with coolant/water, which does not work as well as straight engine oil for lubrication.

I personally would not drive that car again until the compression test and oil change.. but I've been through all that before so I know better. after the oil change, you should monitor it for about a thousand miles to see if it comes back. if it does, you most definitely have a slow leaking headgasket.

I dont know what mario_pic is smoking, but that would be the last thing on earth i would do to ANY car of mine, no mater what is wrong with it. You use a hot tank to clean an engine.. not some magic mystery sauce..

 

+2 on comp testing it; get a leakdown done while you're at it.

Condensation doesn't really seem likely unless you've got a seriously shitty VC gasket on there.