Thread: water in oil filler neck

lol, my only way to get to work is this car! I just would like to hear what other possibilities it is if its not the intake gaskets!

Originally Posted by m1sterb0b

lol, my only way to get to work is this car! I just would like to hear what other possibilities it is if its not the intake gaskets!

Water in crank case possible causes?

Cracked block, cracked head, cracked intake, bad headgasket, bad intake gasket.

when we replaced the upper intake gasket and the lower intake gasket, there was no antifreeze pooled on the intake manifold! the owner of the care before me had already had the upper intake gasket replaced and the plenum replaced with a high heat plastic plenum!

And bio, I know you don't have 500 mile x-ray! :P even though you should! I Just wanted to know what the other possibilities were so I could look into them seeing as we already replaced the intake gaskets (and yes the lower intake gasket was replaced with the new updated one with the aluminum frame!)

New gaskets can leak, mistakes happen.

Besides your going to have to pull the intake to do the head gaskets anyway if need be. So get to work. Chances are your going to pull the intake and see the leak immediately.

Or wait and keep driving it until you have completely destroyed the engine which you may have already.

Well, took an extensive look at my car today! It almost over heated last night on the way home on a 70 mile drive, 5 miles into it! :P

So I decided to take time to actually look at it today, and we got a fresh thing on snow last night so I could see if it is leaking externally. Another thing that made me decide to check it again is last night when I stopped to meijer to get antifreeze to put in it, I checked the oil to see how it was and it was NOT even slightly milky and with how much it leaked and for the oil to not be milky, and it was actually a quart low, which I gotta figure out where THAT is leaking out, I figured it wasn't leaking into the oil and if it was it wasn't a quick leak it was a VERY slow leak, not fast enough for my car to get as low as it did. It took about 3/4 of a gallon, put the rest in the overflow and it took that up as well when it cooled down. Checked into it and the elbow from the tensioner to the intake manifold was leaking pretty good, enough to melt a 4 inch circle in the snow, I'd say while running it for 10 minutes it leaked about half a cup to a cup of antifreeze just from that. So imma replace that and do a pressure check to see whats going on from there! My dad looked at the condensation in the oil filler neck and said that it was normal levels for winter! donno bout it but that's what he says and he's been workin with 3.8's for 20 some odd years!

I don't do a lot of city driving, the majority of my driving is 30+ miles at a time! part of it IS city driving, but not stop and go enough to do much, and by the time I'm there engine is fully warmed up! but my dad still says that it can happen, especially in the colder temps!