HELP!!!
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Mountain Pass
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From: Gurnee, IL
HELP!!!
Just pulled the oil filler cap off to start an oil change and this is what I saw. Smells like oil and fuel, but doesn't look like oil
There is more in the top of the filler tube. Any ideas?
There is more in the top of the filler tube. Any ideas?
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Does the oil on your dipstick resemble that, or just your oil cap? If its just the cap, its really nothing to worry about. That's condensation mixing with the oil, most likely due to a few too many short duration trips without letting the vehicle warm up to full operating temperature.
Do you live only a couple of miles or so from work/school by chance?
Do you live only a couple of miles or so from work/school by chance?
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Mountain Pass
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Just in the cap and in the top of the filler neck. I don't live close to work though, but I'm sure I am guilty of a few trips to the gas station or store with out fully warming the truck up. Hopefully that's the issue. Truck runs fine. Thanks.
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hate to say this phrase...but, "that is normal"
the 5.4 3v motor loves to condense water from the atmosphere. and short trips don't get the motor hot enough to burn that water off and get sucked out the motor via the PCV
just wipe it out, and try to avoid those short trips...especially in the colder weather
the 5.4 3v motor loves to condense water from the atmosphere. and short trips don't get the motor hot enough to burn that water off and get sucked out the motor via the PCV
just wipe it out, and try to avoid those short trips...especially in the colder weather
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Yeah, it's just where the moistue in the air over the warming oil / internals condenses against the cooler under surfaces of things like caps and valve / cam covers and mixes with oil mist. Thoroughly warming the engine warms those surfaces as well. It ain't all your oil.
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