Water in oil?

[ErrorS]

I left my hood open when it rained.. started my bronco up and it just starts pouring out white smoke. checked the oil and there was quite a bit of water on the dipstick (might have just been the tube?). Anyways, while tuning it (new carb and dizzy) the white smoke died down a bit and there was far less water in the oil. my question is, should I definitely do an oil change? I just did one.. and is it possible the water was pushing through, burning off the water in my pan (if there was any). Lets say it was a tiny amount, will it evaporate through my valve covers? push past the rings and get burnt up? wreak some kind of havoc throughout my engine and destroy it? the oil looks almost perfect now with a few water spots through the dipstick, but I'm not sure how reliable that is. I put some premium frickin oil in there like 50 miles ago.. i wanted to run it at least 500 miles before an oil change to flush the engine. I also might have a blown head gasket, but I'm going to pretend I don't for now..

[gfw1985]

Don't see how you could have gotten that much water in it from the hood being open unless you had no air filter on it, but I'd change it anyway. You could drain the oil into a clean pan, soon as you loosen the drain plug the water will come out first so watch closely to see how much. Good luck on the gasket.

[readyakira]

I would do 2 oil changes just to be sure... oil in the water is very very bad. Water will squeeze down much more then oil and wash a bearing out in a hurry.

[andym]

You do NOT want any water in your oil. Let me put it this way - you can either spend $20 on a few quarts of oil, or $1000 on a rebuilt motor.

Your choice.

[ErrorS]

I was working on it, had no filter on it and the distributor wasnt bolted down.

It didn't rain directly into anything, but I think the water ran down the hood, onto my intake and into the distributor hole. and possibly into the carburetor.

ill go ahead and do the oil change