Dirty gritty drained oil when I did the oil change today

LaSeeno · 03-13-2010, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dlmartin81

I talked to an old buddy of mine who used to be a mechanic and he said that a lot of time when oil is brown, it's due to a bad head gasket (I think it was a head gasket, that he said) and you have coolant getting in and mixing with the oil. I don't know, I think that's what he said.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

It does but even if a HG explains the milkiness--all that copper screams of rod/journal bearings. Get it checked ASAP, no need to keep speculating. You most likely have a serious issue.

dlmartin81 · 03-14-2010, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by LaSeeno

It does but even if a HG explains the milkiness--all that copper screams of rod/journal bearings. Get it checked ASAP, no need to keep speculating. You most likely have a serious issue.

I do want to get it taken care ASAP but I'm not sure if I should wait a week or two so that the oil has time to collect some of the crap that I saw a week ago. I'm afraid of going to early and risk them saying, "I don't see anything wrong with your oil." I might try to drain a quart to get a sample and then top it off again. But yes, I'm definitely not going to wait long.

m4a1mustang · 03-14-2010, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by dlmartin81

I do want to get it taken care ASAP but I'm not sure if I should wait a week or two so that the oil has time to collect some of the crap that I saw a week ago. I'm afraid of going to early and risk them saying, "I don't see anything wrong with your oil." I might try to drain a quart to get a sample and then top it off again. But yes, I'm definitely not going to wait long.

Like someone already said, you can drain just enough for a sample and then top off with fresh oil. If you have a siphon pump you can just siphon some out of the oil pan through the dipstick tube.

spearfish25 · 03-14-2010, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

Like someone already said, you can drain just enough for a sample and then top off with fresh oil. If you have a siphon pump you can just siphon some out of the oil pan through the dipstick tube.

Even without a pump, you can get some tubing at Home Depot, insert it down the dipstick hole and just suck some out by mouth. I did this the last oil change when I overfilled a bit.

m4a1mustang · 03-14-2010, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by spearfish25

Even without a pump, you can get some tubing at Home Depot, insert it down the dipstick hole and just suck some out by mouth. I did this the last oil change when I overfilled a bit.

You can suck, yes, but it's not a good thing for a man to do.

Trips · 03-14-2010, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

You can suck, yes, but it's not a good thing for a man to do.

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