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That IS a bummer. Hope you can find a way out of that without too much trouble.
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Holding off on pulling engine, gonna try a couple of tests first! We just have that Milky oil everywhere, oil, intake..... Might just have been some loose head bolts, gonna flush the engine and see what we get first!
Thank you, we'll take a look at that a little closer!I suggest pulling the head! I had the same issue with a CJ2A and found the head gasket was getting hit by the piston causing it to deform letting coolant into the cylinder. Looking at other gaskets I found not many with same issue but may have been a bad run of them causing this.
Changed the head gasket, ran into two stripped head bolts, bummer, still have white oil, but my guess is, I'll have to run several flushes to get all that crap out of the engine. One strange issues is the filler neck vent tube is actually sucking up a good amount of the milky oil from the filler tube into the intake? It might be slowing down now, but I've never seen that before? First run at high RPM was maybe a quart, Oil is not filling up? So we are still hoping we solved the leak, the oil seems to have darkened a bit on the first flush, we now just have to flush several more times! And hopefully it will stop sucking up the oil.
I have a Multifuel M38! It runs good on that crap, it just smokes to high heaven!
Any thoughts that I'm missing?
I've had this as well and was worried that there was water in the oil. But it's never used any antifreeze!The past two jeep I have used/seen run in cold weather have had slight "milky" residue (key word here) near the oil fill/air intake pipe deal. During the warmer months this would clear up. Long drives would also have same effect. Far as the oil I had to do two oil changes before I got clean oil and even then I still had soem residue stuff left over. After a hour drive though it was good to go!
That there is a serious block of work for one night; you were really logging.Nothing today, but last night I installed leaf springs, then rear axle, shock absorber hardware, and shock absorbers. Only took one trip to Ace, too.
Mountain Dew and a lot of it! I was in a serious groove!Just curious:
- How many cups of coffee had you had yesterday before you started working on the jeep?
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I heard that. Some dew, tunes, and nobody pestering you, and you can get a lot done.Mountain Dew and a lot of it! I was in a serious groove!
Today's caffeine and Valentine's candy fueled excitement was the realization that a half off the frame restore (just the rear area on, front around engine off) was not going to produce the quality I want, I took off the rest of the body. I may never get this restore done if I keep going in reverse!I heard that. Some dew, tunes, and nobody pestering you, and you can get a lot done.
Been there done that got the dirty jeans to show lol
Maybe so, but when it's all finished it'll sure be nice.Today's caffeine and Valentine's candy fueled excitement was the realization that a half off the frame restore (just the rear area on, front around engine off) was not going to produce the quality I want, I took off the rest of the body. I may never get this restore done if I keep going in reverse!
Yes, I just wouldn't have been satisfied if it had not been down correctly.Maybe so, but when it's all finished it'll sure be nice.
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