coolant In Oil !

[jmb]

Alright... Here's the story 2008 6.4. Heat stopped working 2 weeks ago. Was about 3 gallons low. Added coolant and heat started working. Today it stopped again and had to add 1/2 gallon of coolant. No coolant leaks on any hoses, radiator is less than a year old. Checked oil dipstick and could smell coolant with the oil.... What do I have to do now???

 

[Magnum PD]

Blown head gasket?

 

[ThreeFitty]

Headgasket, oil cooler are two things I would check. Won't blown headgasket fug with heat? I know on 6.0's they do

 

[webb06]

Alright... Here's the story 2008 6.4. Heat stopped working 2 weeks ago. Was about 3 gallons low. Added coolant and heat started working. Today it stopped again and had to add 1/2 gallon of coolant. No coolant leaks on any hoses, radiator is less than a year old. Checked oil dipstick and could smell coolant with the oil.... What do I have to do now???

Was the oil overfull? Does the truck have studs, if so there could be a cracked block, unlikely though.

The coolant is obviously going somewhere. Does it smoke white like its being burned? Is the truck stock?

 

[Gary]

If you have coolant in your oil, the oil will look like a chocolate shake.

 

[SEABEE08FX4]

Seen this on a few customer trucks, one was a oil cooler the other a cracked block.

 

[G Racing]

It could be the egr coolers. the oil coolers will usually put oil in the coolant. If you have coolant in the oil, the oil will be milky white looking.

 

[Lipka101]

Front cover? Behind water pump.

 

[jmb]

Okay I was wrong. There is no coolant in the oil. The EOT and ECT are normal no changes or overheating. No signs of leaks at any hoses. Radiator is 8 months old. Heat started bolwing cold and coolant was 3 1/2 gallons low. Filled it up and heat worked for almost a week then blew cold again. Coolant was 1/2 gallon low, filled it up again....... now what??? Oil level is perfect... where's the coolant going??? Help!

 

[jmb]

Webb06 no white smoke. Has dpf and egr delete. Spartan tuner

 

[Worstenemy453]

Nevermind, you answered before mine posted.

Any you said the oil looks normal, no milkshake.

 

[Dzchey21]

My guess with the EGR being delete and the oil not looking milky that the head gaskets are blown. The reason the heat is not working is because the compression in over pressurizing the cooling system and essentially the water is staying stagnant in the block and not flowing to the heater core or radiator.

I have heard of some 6.4 owners having some issues with this but you are loosing coolant so i dont think thats it.


Only other thing would be too look at the hood above the degas bottle where you fill the cooling system. If its white there and all over the battery and other stuff then the thermostats could be causing the entire issue .

 

[jmb]

No white residue near degas bottle. Anything else it could be?

 

[jmb]

You dont think head gasket

 

[webb06]

No white residue near degas bottle. Anything else it could be?

What is the temp where you're at overnight?

 

[jmb]

Im in Tennessee, about 30s overnight

 

[Autoguns]

No smoke, No foaming in the oil and no leak found... Maybe you had an air pocket in the block from the radiator swap that is working its way out.

 

[jmb]

I hope that's all it is.

 

[ThreeFitty]

After 8 months still an air bubble of that large of size? I wouldn't think so but for your sake I hope so

 

[SEABEE08FX4]

If you're fully deleted and no milkshake going on then you have a blown head gasket, do you have any coolant blowing out of the rad cap after a full throttle run ?