new 6 bolt swap, oil in coolant

[WILOWNU]

so i have a built 6 bolt swap in my 95 talon, been running it for a few weeks, and got it somewhat hot a few times, but not recently. today i was checking my coolant and i had the nice chocolate milk substance in my t-stat housing. i changed my oil last weekend but i only hand tightened my filter, so i dont think i crushed the sandwich by the oil filter. could this be my headgasket or something else?

 

[Nicks2319]

Headgasket, or you bought a bad oil cooler. They can go bad if they have ever been over tightened.

 

[WILOWNU]

word, i just dont understand why there would be oil in the coolant but no coolant in the oil.

 

[WILOWNU]

should there be coolant in the oil if i had a headgasket go out?

 

[talontsi101]

it's your oil cooler for sure man we just dealt with this in our swap we put a non turbo oil filter housing on problem solved

 

[Nicks2319]

it's your oil cooler for sure man we just dealt with this in our swap we put a non turbo oil filter housing on problem solved

I wouldnt do that, the turbo models need a way to cool the oil, whether it be a water cooler, or air cooler. Just buy a 90 style housing and an external oil cooler and never worry about it again.

 

[WILOWNU]

once it is off, if i cant visually tell it is the problem, how do i test it?

 

[spoonman]

If you don't find a problem with the oil cooler you would have a crack in your block or head letting oil in your coolant and that would suck.

 

[WILOWNU]

yeah, no shit that would suck. im gonna go with trying the oil filter housing first, and then move on to the more expensive things.

 

[WILOWNU]

would the car run bad if the oil filter housing went out, or would it just act the same?

 

[Cs4g63]

If it winds not being your oil filter housing than definately check your headgasket out. Everytime that I have had to change a headgasket because it went bad I have had the nasty looking chocolate milk oil thing going on, and the car ran kind of crappy when it happened.

 

[BUCK]

word, i just dont understand why there would be oil in the coolant but no coolant in the oil.

The Oil runs at a much higher psi so... Obviously it MAY be your Head Gasket with the few "run hots" you mentioned but what I did was remove the Oil Filter Housing Stud & cut it off shorter when I deleted the POS Water to Oil Cooler - Then I reinstalled the Filter straight to the OFH like a real setup - You could do that as a quick 'Test" - SOON you'll want an Air to Oil Cooler - BTW those female Allen Pipe Plugs in the OFH are LOCTITED in the OFH - You MUST heat them with a Torch to breakdown the Loctite or you'll be off on another Fiasco, maybe even rip the OFH right off the Block~! - Good Luck & DON"T kill that 6 Bolt~!

 

[WILOWNU]

thanks for all the good advice. As of right now the car is just sitting, i look to start work on it this week, so i will be on here often and may be sending out some pm's for specific questions i have.

 

[WILOWNU]

ok so i actually crawled underneath the car and noticed the two coolant lines going to my oil filter housing. can i just disconnect these two lines and connect them together, bypassing the ofh? just as a test to see if that is my problem?

 

[WILOWNU]

yes, no, maybe so?