Ok so in the process of swapping my B16 out of my hatch into my coupe I came across a little situation...

Ok so my car never overheats, no white smoke out the exhaust during idle or full throttle, car doesnt feel sluggish or anything like that, no bubbles in my radiator fluid when i leave my rad cap off and let car run and my oil isnt milky at all..

When the coolant was draining from the hatch i noticed oil in it.. maybe a quarter of a quart maybe even less in there and it didnt come out until it was almost done draining...

When i changed my oil right after i drained the coolant it was just under 4 full qquarts that came out

So im just wondering if theres any other way that oil could get into my coolant without a blown headgasket.. i did a few searches and my car shows no other symptoms of a blown headgasket besides the oil in the coolant

I have a leaky cam seal and i think that my rear main seal might be leaking a little bit but other than that motor is solid with low miles and i dont beat on it...

any help / suggestions of other things to check would be a huge help..

Thanks in advance

 

put it in the car. put fresh fluids in and drive it around for 2 miles or so and check the fluids.
its better than "take off the head and check"

 

the only other option i'm aware of besides the headgasket leaking oil into the coolant is a crack in the block or the head (or the porosity phenomenon, but that seems to be on certain engine models only).

 

yea its in the car now and it will be on the road tomorrow so im just going to drive it and then drain the coolant again and see what the deal is

cracked block or head isnt what i wanted to see and porosity phenomenon?? no idea what that is hahah

 

MIGHT HAVE A HAIRLINE CRACK IN BLOCK OR HEAD JUST MY OPINION BUT HOPFULLY IM WRONG

 

yeah that's never a fun one. i hope i'm wrong for your sake.

the porosity thing had something to do with a flaw in the block casting.. i've only been told about it, never seen it first hand. the way it was described to me (by a highly experienced Acura master tech...): you would look at the side of the block and it would look like it was sweating coolant! no visible crack or anything.

 

i wouldnt notice a power loss or anything with a cracked block or head.. like a loss of compression or something?

 

hmm and that would cause oil to get into the coolant?

 

Binghamton huh? I used to live there. Hydrolocked my car in the flood a few years back. Do you guys still meet up in JC on the weekends? Free bump for you.

 

if it were in an area between an oil passage and water jacket... nothing more than a theory though.

 

nah they shut that down couple years ago and i know like four people who hydrolocked their cars during that flood.. some kid i worked with had just bought an 89 Z28 camaro like 3 weeks before the flood and ended up blowing a rod through the side of the block hahah.. what kind of car did you have??

 

Sometimes it can be a small leak, I never had major issues when my headgasket was leaking but I did have dispappearing coolant. Once it was replaced my coolant stop disappearing.

 

why you don't do radiator compression test? At least you can confirm there is a leak.

 

Red Integra.. I miss those days. Bing girls are easy as 1-2-3 lol. Too bad they shut the street races down. Nothing to do in that town now lol.

Bump for you to hopefully figure it out man.

 

thats what im hoping for

not sure how to do that

yea man **** is wack up here now and i hear you on the girls hahaha

 

Take it to the Midas in JC. I had them do one for me a few years ago. Really quick and cheap test.

 

sounds like a plan.. just gotta get this thing on the road.. dmv is givin me alot of trouble with this bill of sales bc it was emailed to me and not to them so there claiming that i altered it aka fraud.. sooo long story short i have to go to another dmv with different paper work that i did forge signatures and lowered the purchase price (if they can be ******** so can i hahaha) on just to get this thing on the road.... **** the DMV they always make things more difficult than they should be!!!

 

thanks for all the opinions and help guys... hoping for no cracked head or block! hopefully just a stupid headgasket aka $80 replacement instead of $600 replacement haha

-Lasky

 

Can you swap a headgasket on your own? It's definitely not something for a beginner (dunno your experience)

 

yea im pretty sure i can handle it.. ive taken a few heads off of motors before.. just never replaced the headgasket when i was doing it