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Strange Yellow Residue on Oil Cap?



brandonl2000 said:
excuse me? i do believe im the one that navigated him from the hood to the gasket.
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For no reason whatsoever.:( Even plastic gaskets didn't fail in under a couple of months. Plastics last in our cars for ~100K and many times much longer. Hop off the LIM train and go read what he and I wrote. A GM mechanic did the gaskets, aka they are 99% likely to be metal. It's from experience and gained knowledge that I post. Unless it's your problems..then I toss bs in there. :th_laugh-lol3:

Understand what it says and you'll put all the pieces together to realize, kid doesn't drive, condensation is what his problem is/was and it's all good.
 
LOL why yall so sens-uh-tive??

what i was leaning with was because he wasn't sure rather or not the gaskets were even done by this guy..

and my thing was, GO be sure for yourself! and when he was reluctant to verify for himself i was just bumfuzzled. i mean, dont just take someone word for it, go look and be sure.

tis whatever. glad its condensation, now go find some leaves to drive on.
 


Hippo Machine said:
Yea... it looks lime the gasket might be plastic afterall...











BUt still 1000 miles? c'mon.
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thank you hippo, big boy!! :th_tongue4:

NOW this is what i was trying to accomplish. at this point, isn't much you can do on your own without tearing the motor apart. SO i would want some hard evidence from your mechanic man who claimed he replaced it and make sure he replaced them.

even my dad knows to use the metal gaskets and he's just a mechanic on the side. so if that mechanics ever touched a 3800 he should know better.

just tryin to look out for ya hippo. tis all. ;)
 




Hippo Machine said:
He does really know these cars, I will ask, we have a Christmas party on Saturday.


He didn't just not change it.
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let's hope he DID change them. at least it'll be a fresh gasket either way. tell him you want hard evidence, a receipt or something

Hippo Machine said:
Maybe I looked at the wrongo spoto again :p. I will take pics tmrw.
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yeah post up some pics kinda like i did. best spot of vision seems to be at the top right part of your front valve cover :)
 
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