Yeah the oil did pretty much float to the top but was A LOT more then a few drops. I did then drain the coolant and there wasnt a lot of oil in it but def was a lot of oil residue in the coolant i drained out.
so before the lim/blower swap you already had oil in the coolant that you drained out to do the job? that means preexisting condition
MLS head gaskets, gm lim and felpro sc gaskets. is it anyway to test/find out if one or both of those gaskets leaking? Would it hurt the engine to run in its current state? could it be anything else that could cause a problem like this? are head gaskets completely ruled out?
its hard to test since if you pressurize the passage it'll be damn near impossible to find where its leaking into since its not external and even if you did it with the WP off it'd be a fucking cunt to locate it.
you could pull the WP off and pressureize the oil sending unit port with compressed air and see if you can locate any bubbles throught he timing cover water passages but the block to cover gasket area is about 2 inches in so it'd be a pita to see it...though if you put dawn dish soap in the cooling system beforehand or smeared it arouund the inside of the ports after removing the pump, you can probably see a buncha bubbles form.
i wouldnt drive it around like this, if the cooling system got hot and pressurized as soon as you shut the engine off coolant would bleed into the oil passages and thats no good...coolant makes a shitty lubricant....HG not a chance, no pressureized oil passages exist in the head to block junction point.
gaskets should be okay. I know brian just did your regal. Any problems with it?
yeah for some reason the car turned red,black and blue
Im guessing maybe that the new gaskets for the lim did not seat properly
thats a pressureized leak, cooling system will hit 16psi, crankcase wont hit anything but vac or atmospheric unless the gaskets are leaking manifold air intot he crankcase and that would only be under boost. the only way for oil to get intot he radiator is a pressure system leak to an adjacent coolant passage, my guess is the timing cover gasket may have slipped/split as the tcover had to be removed for the install of the cam sometime ago
Even if that were the case, the oil doesn't flow in such a way that there would be such a prevalent amount of oil in the water, and (as far as we know) no water in the oil. Water is usually going to get into the oil long before the converse, especially in the case of a LIM gasket. Everything seemed to seat properly when we put the LIM gasket on, bolts all lined up, it sat snug, and he's not burning any coolant either.
bingo....btw..... whats black and blue and red all over?
It does not appear to be any coolant in the oil but only checked from the dip stick and fill hole. Any ideas what would cause this oil to be in the coolant/radiator.
