Ok so I noticed I have water in my oil. I have only driven the car maybe 4 or 5 times this last month and it has been to the gym right down the street. I have been told moisture builds up with e85 if you don't run the motor long enough to evaporate the water. Short of that I have no idea how water would be introduced to the oil. It does not get wet unless I wash the car and thats the exterior. So is this an accurate assessment of the e85 theory?
Water in oil...e85 related?
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How much water are you talking here? Got pics ? Where are you seeing it at ?
In the oil...white sludge in top of oil cap and on dip stick. About to drain the oil today I didn't have time yesterday.
Is your coolant topped off? You could be mixing coolant with your oil too. If you check it and its low I'd bet that's your problem.
PCV delete coupled with moist conditions can cause this also.
I was running just breathers on my old NA car and would get that. Yellowish/white goop. Decided Id rather have a hose running to one VC than that going on.
I was running just breathers on my old NA car and would get that. Yellowish/white goop. Decided Id rather have a hose running to one VC than that going on.
I'm running a catch can. No coolant in oil and I just drained oil and no sludge and very very little moisture if any in oil..
I've never had an issue in 5 years of running E85. I change the oil once a year about 1200 miles. The car sits a lot.
If it's not too late and you didn't dispose of the oil....you could always send a sample off to one of the oil testing labs and see what exactly is in there
If it's not too late and you didn't dispose of the oil....you could always send a sample off to one of the oil testing labs and see what exactly is in there
Ya man I strongly doubt you have moisture in the oil. It's just in the crankcase because you don't have a PCV. Couple that with moist conditions and those short drives and sure, it'll build up a little. It gets hot and tries to evaporate out and ends up collecting up high.
I am not sure if they are related but I have a fleet of about 180 natural gas tractors and we run about 2.2 million miles a month. We change the oil on each tractor at 30k miles because of the condensation found in the oil. What is very weird the oil itself is clean at 30k miles but shows many signs of condensation in the oil. I am not sure if these two are related because of natural gas vs ethanol.
Yeah I am at a loss...I inspected the oil that came out and no white milky sludge, no moisture...he'll it looks prestine. But the dip stick had moisture on it and a trace of white milk and the oil cap was nothing but white sludge...crazy!!
I talked to atleast 5 turbo stang in the indy area who use rotella to help the white milky issue...yeah never heard of that but ok.
Alaskablkmach if it's just some white goo, it's more then likely just from short trips, and not getting hot enough like you mentioned earlier. We get lots of vehicles in that only do short in town drives with considerable white sludge, even on factory stock stuff. I wouldn't sweat it much at all. Maybe take er out for a good run and put some heat in it every few trips
Thank ya sir...that is what I have been told to do also so I will just driver her hard I guess....now I have an excuse of she can't go slow it hurts the oil....lol...wife will understand...lol
Without the PVC the car needs about 20 mins running time to evaporate all condensation
E85, PCV deleted and breathers from each VC to the fenders to tanks.
This is one side/can. It looks this way every 3-4 months (about 1000 miles or so)
Car sits, and gets raced. I dont drive it much on the street, just to get gas or drive 250 mile round trip to track.
This is one side/can. It looks this way every 3-4 months (about 1000 miles or so)
Car sits, and gets raced. I dont drive it much on the street, just to get gas or drive 250 mile round trip to track.
E85, PCV deleted and breathers from each VC to the fenders to tanks.
This is one side/can. It looks this way every 3-4 months (about 1000 miles or so)
Car sits, and gets raced. I dont drive it much on the street, just to get gas or drive 250 mile round trip to track.
Stock engine?
Damn ok I'm good then I don't have no where near that much moisture. Thanks yall
E85, PCV deleted and breathers from each VC to the fenders to tanks.
This is one side/can. It looks this way every 3-4 months (about 1000 miles or so)
Car sits, and gets raced. I dont drive it much on the street, just to get gas or drive 250 mile round trip to track.
Don't they have bathrooms at your shop Kelly :lol:
Now I see why everyone swaps out E85 during the winter months and load their pump gas tunes back in.
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