Has anyone seen anything like this before? Freshly rebuilt engine, head and block were flat and clean, 20ra surface finish. New oem Elring head gaket, oem head bolts, and all torqued per bmw torque/angle/sequence specs. It’s making around 575-ish HP at 25psi on E40…nothing crazy.
It runs great, compression is good, plugs look great, idles nice and smooth, logs look perfect, no smoke out the exhaust…..runs perfect. BUT….I noticed when I changed the break-in oil at 500miles, that it was using a little bit of coolant, and had the typical milky stuff under the oil cap. I would have thought that it was just condensation, but since it’s using coolant (and it’s not leaking out anywhere). ..I figured it’s a sign that there might be coolant in the oil.
I thought I might have gotten a bad OFHG, and it was leaking coolant into the oil, but when I pulled it off to replace it…it looked great (put a new one in anyways).
When I had the intake off….I noticed this. Anyone ever seen anything like this? It’s like coolant has been seeping out between the layers of the head gasket. Not dripping down…..just oozing out from the gasket itself.
Did I just get a bad head gasket? I’m pretty frustrated after all the time and money I put into this new engine that I’m going to have to pull the head off again.
It runs great, compression is good, plugs look great, idles nice and smooth, logs look perfect, no smoke out the exhaust…..runs perfect. BUT….I noticed when I changed the break-in oil at 500miles, that it was using a little bit of coolant, and had the typical milky stuff under the oil cap. I would have thought that it was just condensation, but since it’s using coolant (and it’s not leaking out anywhere). ..I figured it’s a sign that there might be coolant in the oil.
I thought I might have gotten a bad OFHG, and it was leaking coolant into the oil, but when I pulled it off to replace it…it looked great (put a new one in anyways).
When I had the intake off….I noticed this. Anyone ever seen anything like this? It’s like coolant has been seeping out between the layers of the head gasket. Not dripping down…..just oozing out from the gasket itself.
Did I just get a bad head gasket? I’m pretty frustrated after all the time and money I put into this new engine that I’m going to have to pull the head off again.