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1974 doge dart oil breather problems

I bought a new oil breather cap. and the pcv valve on the valve cover is clear but the oil breather cap keeps getting a yellow green black and brown sludge build up in it and it has what looks like water drops in it so my question is why the sludge and how can water be in my oil breather cap Thank you


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It sounds like your head gasket is blown.  Do not run the engine anymore until you replace it or you will ruin it.

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wellwould it use water if it has a blowen head gasket because it does not use water at all

Posted 2008-05-04T03:31:40Z
 
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Not enough to notice.  It's being sucked into the cylinders or the crankcase very slowly because it's a small leak.  A cracked block would lose water like crazy because that's a crack in the water jacket itself.

I've seen this before, and it's always the same.  The way to tell for sure is to do a compression test on each cylinder.  You'll get a bad reading where the leak is in the cylinder head gasket.  You'll probably know by looking at the spark plugs when you pull them out to do the test which one(s) it is.  It could have failed in the head gasket just between the water passages and the oil passages, without traveling to the cylinders, but usually once it fails it fails to the cylinder.

But that's water in your oil, and it only gets into it a couple of ways.  The head gasket is the most common.  I don't want to think about the other problems, which is a crack somewhere, either in the head or in the block. 

Posted 2008-05-04T03:42:52Z
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Thank you I will do as you say and let you know thank you for help well be back in touch

Posted 2008-05-04T04:08:16Z
 
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You're welcome, anytime.  I'd hate to see you trash a nice car like that.  Chrysler doesn't make engines like that anymore.  Keep in touch, I'd like to know how it turns out.

Posted 2008-05-04T04:42:13Z
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The yellow is water mixing with the oil. It sounds like you take short trips a lot not letting the car get up to operating temp. Just drive it for a longer time 20 min or more it will be fine.

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