I just finished a camshaft swap and the car runs great just one problem my oil is white i did the break in on the cam and i took the valve covers off just do a extra little bit of valve ajustment to find a nice thick coat of white foam on the inside of my valve covers and my oil to be a cream brown color. now im asuming that means antifreeze is getting into my oil right but from where i know a bit got into my lifter valley when i pulled the intake off but i changed my oil after all the work was done. and my oil almost white. i got all new gaskets. now im just wondering what are all the possible place antifreeze can get into the oil. it didnt do it before the camshaft swap. is the intake and timing chain cover the only places? and how to check?
Coolant goes thru the intake manifold into the heads. Have a leak into the valley area from the manifold to head port gasket seal?
when you had the intake manifold off ? when you put it back on did you run a bead of sealant around the water holes? good luck.
I'm afraid it's the head gasket itself. I damaged one once putting it on and had the same thing happen. I hope that's not your case, but it does happen.
it shouldnt be the head gasket because i never removed the heads and it didnt do it before. aslo should i run a bead around both the intake and the head side of the gasket? I didnt use any sealent there just and the ends of the intake where those little stip gaskets are. i used some good felpro gaskets the ones that almost feel metal. i useded the cheaper softer felpro's last time i had the intake off and no sealent and there was no leak....... could it because i used the harder gaskets this time that i would need sealent?
Seal both sides of the water passages on the intake gasket. Since you didn't remove the heads they only way it could be a head gasket leak is if you over torqued the intake bolts. Make sure you go around the intake manifold bolts in the proper order and torque them down to spec. Depending on the type of gasket you use you may have to go around multiple times until all bolts a torqued to spec.
Don't forget to look for leaks around the timing chain cover.There are passages for coolant in it and sometimes the aluminum is corroded and not a flat surface to seal to. It will run down into the drain pan from the inside,very hard to detect.
well went to pull my intake off today to find my intake bolts finger tight i think i found the problem.
