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How do you find out What is causing my motor oil to look like milk?
Check your coolant. Typically milky oil is a sign of a bad head gasket.
What does it mean when your car oil is milky and the head gaskets are not bad?
How do you know the gasket is not bad? f you oil is milky then there is moisture mixed with the oil. This can be a blown head gasket or a warped or cracked head.
What is wrong with 98 cavalier z24 oil is milky and runs bad most of the time?
The oil being milky is caused from water getting into it, if I remember right that sounds like a bad head gasket
What causes Milky oil 1994 dodge ram 1500?
milky oil is caused by water and antifreeze contamintaion, you have a bad head gasket. replace both headgaskets
What are the symptoms of a bad piston?
loss of compression, loss of power, oil is "milky"
What causes brown milky oil in 2002 Chevy truck?
"Butterscotch" oil means water in the oil - cracked head or bad head gasket
You have white smoke on start up loss of antifreeze milky oil but no smoke when engine is hot?
White smoke at startup, loss of anti freeze and milky oil indicates to me a bad head gasket.
Could a cracked radiator make the water go into the oil line and make the oil look milky?
A cracked radiator will NOT put water in the engine and make the oil milky. A bad head gasket WILL put water in the engine and make the oil look milky. That does not neccessarily mean you have a bad engine. Have someone fix or replace the radiator and replace the head gasket. It could be a good engine for a long time yet
Milky transmission fluid?
Milky means one thing, water in the oil! Generally this means coolant from the engine is getting into the trans usually through the oil cooler in the radiator. This is very very bad and will quickly ruin the transmission.
94 Geo Tracker with a 1.6 overheating?
Overheating is usually caused by a bad head gasket. Check under the radiator cap for oil or milky reside. Check under the oil cap for water or white milky residue.
Milky anti freeze?
Milky anti-freeze is usually an indication that motor oil is getting into the cooling system, probably through a bad head gasket or a cracked block or head.
How would you know if your head gaskets is bad in a 1998 explorer?
You would eventually find water in the oil, or it would look milky compared to normal oil.
