Hey all,
When the vehicle was running, the water that was in the oil had dissipated and then evaporated when the engine oil got hot. This is the only time that the water would've bubbled and excaped through the engine's crankcase venting system (PCV).
You know, we still don't know if you even had water in the oil! This idea is still speculation only!
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My Beastie
90 Ranger 2.3L EFI 2wd Mazda < with many new parts!

 

#1 - If the water "evaporated when the oil got hot and disapeared" it was either vandilisim or magic that got it in there in the first place. Were it a coolant leak into the oil pan, it would reoccur with regularity.

#2 - You can put all the speculation to rest one way or another with a compression test of the cylinders and a pressure test of the cooling system.


HTH.

 

ctfuzzy
not disapeared >Dissapated; To Disperse!
Vandalism > is to take away, not to put in!
This the 2nd objection that i've had today! The 1st one was from Ken00! What do you think people are going to say when they come on- line here at FTE + see us PECKING EACH OTHER APART,
Nothing plesant, i'll assure you of that! This is not the way to conduct these Forums!! We should be assisting each other to a mutual solution to ANY PROBLEM!

 

Wolfen et. al.,

Please allow me to start with an apology. I honestly did not realize I was objecting - honest.

This is the friendliest, most helpful, most creative, group of thinkers and typers I have ever seen on the Internet. And I have been on the Internet since, well, since before Windows was.

I feel one of the biggest benefits of THIS forum is that folks actually can offer differing optinions or follow different thought processes - in type - if you will, towards the common goal of "solving" whatever question has been posed without risking a personal attack on their charecter or motives.

Anytime you have "free form" thinkers there are going to be disagreements. Anytime you have free form thinkers following two different intertwining concepts in writing ~every reader's~ own personal "voice inflection" is read into the post.

I'm pretty sure when someone reads a post inside there own head they both hear a voice and picture a person - I know for sure I do . . . generally. Thus each one of us place the inflection (whether it is happy, sad, mad, confused, or even argumentative) in that letter in most cases, not the author.

Now that I have rattled off topic for a few hundred lines please allow me to get back on topic and address what I feel is a simple misunderstanding:

I interpreted the message as saying there was water in the oil ~they suspect~ at one time, but perhaps it had evaporated because of the heat of oil circulating in a hot engine.

This is a completely plausable theory. In fact it, happens to a small extent almost daily in almost all our engines.

What tripped me up mentally was the belief that had the engine had a mechanical cause for that leak it would still have water in the oil. Well . . . unless no water was ever added after the last time the oil evaporated it out.

Thus; if it had water in the oil only one time my simple mind drew the conclusion that either some vandal had poured water in it or it had gotten there by some other mysterious means (magic?).

I assure you - once again - I meant no offense to you or this readership in any way.

Sincerely,
Mike.

 

Very well put ctfuzzy. You are more humble than most.