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check your dipstick...if its really watery...prolly a good sign...not to mention your oil WONT exactly smell like oil.
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Why is the coolant a milky color?
The coolant has oil in it. Possible causes are a failed headgasket, or a leaking oil cooler,
Where would oil be leaking into coolant?
blown headgasket
Why is oil leaking into the coolant?
You need a head gasket.
Keep topping up coolant on Renault there is no leak?
If coolant isn't leaking externally then it has to be leaking internally. A leaking head gasket or cracked head may be the problem. If this is the case, as it gets worse more coolant will enter the combustion chamber or engine oil. Either way you will be able to determine as it gets worse. There will be white smoke from the exhaust. May be intermittent. This is if coolant is leaking into combustion chamber. If leaking into oil, you will notice that the engine oil will have a brown/milky look to it as you check the oil level on the engine oil dipstick.
Will oil float on engine coolant?
It is possible for engine oil to float on engine coolant. This occurs when there is a leaking or blown gasket.
Can you smell a coolant leak at the head gasket?
The head gasket sits between the head and the engine block if it is leaking out where you can see the coolant, yes you can smell the coolant if it is leaking into the engine no you cannot smell the coolant. You can check the oil to see if it has coolant in the oil if it does then the head gasket might be blown.
Why does the 2000 Nissan Altima go through coolant?
You should able to tell if it's leaking so I assume that you are not seeing any coolant where you park so it's a good chance you got a blown head gasket and the coolant is leaking in your cylinders and being burned off or leaking into your oil. Check your oil after running and if it is foamy it has coolant in it.
Your car is over heating and it looks like its leaking oil and coolant?
try taking out the thermostat and have you put to much oil and coolant in the radiator
96 ford mustang that is leaking coolant were the oil pan and front of the motor come together It already has new manifold no coolant in the oil Where is fluid coming from?
Check the water pump. Examine it for traces of dried coolant that might be leaking out of the casting.
What can cause the Coolant mix with the oil in a Toyota 22re engine?
head gasket is leaking into oil
Why is oil in coolant bottle?
Does it have a oil cooler on the engine ?? If it does then oil runs through tubes that are inside of the radiator to cool the oil, and the tubes are leaking oil into the engine coolant. REPLACE RADIATOR. Really need to know what you are working on. Engine size and year. It could verywell be something else. Let us know NEUTZ.
How do you know when heads on an infiniti i35 is bad?
Blue smoke means oil is leaking into the cylinder. White smoke means water is leaking into it. If there are white "globs" in you oil or there's oil in your coolant, that's a good place to start for all four of these symptoms.
