[Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0

[Ron Porter]

The only thing with that is that it seems difficult to not have water in the
oil, and see the "mocha milkshake" on the dipstick. Suppose it's not
impossible to just have the oil affect two things (cylinders & water) and
not be cross-contaminated with coolant.....but I would suspect that it would
be rather unlikely.

FWIW, for a few weeks before the Convention, I was filling the garage with
smoke on about every 4th startup, and I figured one of the seals gave up the
ghost. Now, after 5,400 miles of hot-weather driving to CA & back (using
three quarts of Castrol 10w-30 MaxLife along the way (really pretty good!!),
it has not happened again since my return.

I figure that hours on end of high engine temps really let the MaxLife "do
it's thing" to the valve seals.

I also thought that I was ready for a clockspring, as the horn & cruise were
cutting out most of the time. Other than for a couple of hours early the
first day, they worked for the whole trip and are still working.

The car had not been driven much before the trip, and would sit for days
without being started, so I figure that a good, long highway trip helped a
few things!!

Ron Porter

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From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:42 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Lets play a game what happened to my 3.0


> Only other thing would be a blown head gasket that only is pumping oil
into
> a cylinder.

That was gonna be my guess (also fits the brown coolant)

mark