Oil in the Radiator.

[TURNA]

Put some seafoam in it!!

 

[MalibuDavyou5]

Oooooooor, someone could have drained the coolant into a drain pan with oil in it, then dumped it back in the radiator....

Starting now to think that is a possibility.



The Drained coolant is green, threw half gallon of water in it still no oil or sludge. Sooooo, with an $11 dollar coolant cleaner I am going to flush the system real good.

 

[fleming442]

The oil is just a corrosion inhibitor.

 

[pontiacgp]

where else would the oil come from? unless the other going theory is correct, p/o did a dumb and used dirty coolant .

why do you call him dumb???......I bet if you checked the guys on this forum to find out the bonehead mistakes we have all made I guess you can call us all dumb.

 

[hangar401]

Hate to suggest a head gasket

 

[pontiacgp]

why jump to a worse case scenario?....

 

[Gonzo1970]

Im with PontiacGP here.. Probably the "drained coolant into oil pan, reused it" scenario since there are, literally, no other symptoms (eg. no coolant in the crankcase making that lovely muck we all know and hate), no oil cooler, no trans leak..

Drain, Flush, Replace.. send it..

-Gonz

 

[TURNA]

Just do a compression test if you are not sure.

Its good to do either way so you know what you are dealing with

 

[hangar401]

From experience cracked cyl head oil pressure will drop

 

[MrSony]

why do you call him dumb???......I bet if you checked the guys on this forum to find out the bonehead mistakes we have all made I guess you can call us all dumb.

For clarification, I didn't call the current owner dumb.
I mean the previous owner, or whoever possibly put dirty oily contaminated coolant back into the car. It's a dumb thing to do. i've done my share of stupid sh*t, kinda.