chocolate milk in cc

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:29 pm

i have a quick question. i was checking my cc and there is chocolate milk in it meaning like if i blew a head gasket and the coolant and oil mixing together. anybody experience this problem and is this normal? i checked the oil and it is like the color of oil. its been happening for awhile though, but everytime i did an oil change, no water or coolant in the oil.

i also came back from a 3hr trip and there is a little bit of oil on the injector cover. how it get there? idk, id like to know. wasnt there when i left. nothing seems to be leaking as i double check for leakage when i got back home. everything is dry. vc doesnt have any oil on it and the padding on the hood doesnt show anything splatering. no other components have oil on them either.

thanks.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:49 pm

that could be really bad...

have you flushed your radiator? maybe the oil is going into the coolant.

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:53 pm

ive done it last summer, coolant was fine.

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:02 pm

if its cold where you live right now then that is normal, if my car sits overnight the oil in the catch will actually freeze.. its just that condensation gets collected by it, and makes the oil look like Chocolate milk..

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:08 pm

gillyo2le wrote:if its cold where you live right now then that is normal, if my car sits overnight the oil in the catch will actually freeze.. its just that condensation gets collected by it, and makes the oil look like Chocolate milk..

it is cold and has been lately. thanks for the info!

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:56 am

yeah if it wasn't cold out i would say bye bye head gasket.

silentneon01 · Post by **silentneon01** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:54 am

the oil on the cover was it near the oil cap?

I sometimes get a spot of oil on my cover near the oil cap. have gotten it for 6 years and over 100,000 miles. so while werid its never hurt anything.

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:19 pm

silentneon01 wrote:the oil on the cover was it near the oil cap?

I sometimes get a spot of oil on my cover near the oil cap. have gotten it for 6 years and over 100,000 miles. so while werid its never hurt anything.

yea, it was near the oil cap but it was tight.

ragek23 wrote:yeah if it wasn't cold out i would say bye bye head gasket.

car is an 03 with 55k. i wouldnt understand why it will blow a headgasket so soon.

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:30 pm

maybe the seal on your oilcap is no good.. however i really doubt your headgasket is gone.

04sxt2.0 · Post by **04sxt2.0** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:51 pm

has the car ever over heated, your saying that the coolant looks like chocolate milk or the oil, i know in the newer neons we have to use that specail red coolant, any strang noises form the engine, knocking, misfiring, intake leaks, any of the normal worning signs, i've got to change the coolant in my 04 very soon, but if it was a blown head gasket, you would have some decent warning signs, like misfiring engine codes, pull your plugs and see if they are oil logged or water logged, would be one of the easiest ways to check to see about your head gasket, just trying to hep you out some,

fixitmattman · Post by **fixitmattman** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:12 pm

Oil + moisture = mikly crap. For a catch can, I would see this as normal. As for the oil on the injector cover, if you're not leaking oil from anywhere near by I would probably guess it to be road grime and not oil.

00element10 · Post by **00element10** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:23 pm

yeah james, i noticed that when you dropped your old catch can off here...i went to clean it out haha it did look like chocolate milk

NSDPerformance · Post by **NSDPerformance** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:31 pm

Thats perfectly normal my CC on the SRT is like that. Water forms from the hot oil cooling in the can. Creating the chocolate milk look.Ohh and yes it will freeze and create ice crystals in cold weather.