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Pressure check cooling system.

 

This is a good thing. Clear oil.

 

I had my oil tested by blackstone labs and it came back free of anti freeze. I still suspect I have a small crack in the head, so I am doing this today. I rented the tool from Oreilly's and bought the test liquid. Two cheap tests.

http://www.blackstone-labs.com/

 

That's not true. Mine never turned gray or milky, nor did I get the milky crap on the underside of my oil filler cap. It stayed brown and clear even when there was enough coolant in it to make the oil level rise visibly on the dipstick.

Twenty years ago you could tell if there was coolant in the oil by looking at it. That was because the water was suspended in the oil and not chemically bonded to it. Then the SAE standards for the detergent packages in the oil changed. Now the detergents in most oils are so good that they can chemically bond a lot more water to the oil without ever turning milky. Fewer and fewer oils are turning milky as the oil producers update their additives.

The only way to know for certain is to send off an oil sample for analysis. Otherwise she's just guessing, even if she has clear oil.

The milky coolant advice is one of the reasons I let my 0331 go too long. I kept reading on this very board that coolant in oil would turn it milky, and mine didn't. So even though I was losing coolant, I just thought I had a leak I couldn't find. Toward the end the oil level was showing at least a half a quart high 3000 miles after an oil change, yet the oil was still brown and clear. That's why I know for a fact that the conventional wisdom on this is wrong.

 

I just did a cumbustion leak test on both the radiator and the overflow tank (I saw this done both ways on youtube). The fluid stayed blue after several minutes on each.

 

Can an auto parts store help me with a pressure check?

 

Yep. Call around and see which one can do that. Worst case, check with Advance and Autozone and see if they have a tool rental program. Most do. The deal is you buy the tool, use it, and return for a full refund. In other words, free rental with 100% refundable deposit. Makes it easier for them to not have to track rentals.

Good news on your exhaust gas test! Now you know!

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Thank you Mark

 

http://www.autozone.com/loan-a-tools...ester-adapters

 

Thank you for the link, freegdr. That was kind

 

Not entirely. My Jeep had the cracked head and you never would have noticed by looking at oil. unless I caught it very early. I knew it was cracked because I had to add like 1/4-1/2 a cup of water to reservoir once a week. And then obviously visual inspection inside the oil fill cap. Even then, I had to have someone give it a little acceleration while I looked. At Idle you didn't really see the bubbles with coolant come out

 

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