Well, it's kind of a long story. So not too long ago the weather got freezing cold and I had straight water as coolant because I had a small leak in the radiator and wasn't about to keep buying coolant. Well needless to say everything completely froze and about 4 freeze plugs popped out. Well after I thought everything was defrosted, I started it up and it made a loud winning noise which I believed came from the water pump because after running for a minute I heard water start pouring out from somewhere, so I immediately shut it off. I took the water pump off and everything seemed fine with it, so I put it all together and that's when I realized the freeze plugs that popped out. So, I put them all back in correctly and it didn't leak anymore. So, I put actual coolant in it and gave it a few test runs and everything seemed fine. So, I got ready and headed to town and after I got to town, I started noticing more and more Power lose and the sound as if I was completely missing a spark plug, and then noticed my check engine light started flashing. So, I pulled over and took off the oil cap and noticed milky stuff on the underside of the cap. I then removed one of the coil packs and seen milky on it also. So, I then just assumed the head gasket blew. So, I got it towed home and seen that all the coil packs and spark plugs were covered in milky stuff. Which I thought was weird because none of the gaskets were bad the prevented oil from even getting to that area. So, idk how it was even in there. So, I ordered now head gaskets, torqued everything down exactly how it's supposed to be and drained the oil from the pan and as soon as the bolt came out just maybe a cup of pure water shot out and following that was oil that was just a little bit contaminated with water. So, I put new oil in and was about to do the process of cleaning out all the milky inside the motor and when I started it, milky stuff started coming all around the edges where the head meets the block, fast. So that's when I said screw it and haven't touched the car again. Now trying to find a motor to put in it that I can afford. And to answer your question, idk exactly how many miles is on that motor because that's already the 2nd engine I had to put in it that I got from a U Pull It, if you know what that is, it's like a junkyard and there was no way to see how many miles where on it. But the dash shows about 250,000, which I know is a lot, but I take care of my vehicles and change gaskets and oil as I should, and I just replaced all kinds of stuff. But yeah, I still have no idea to what exactly happened. Only thing I could think of is I cracked the block of the heads off something when I started it and it wasn't completely defrosted. But I was wondering if the engine cracked somewhere, it should've been leaking or showing signs that it was way before I got to town which is about 45 to an hour sway from where I live so I still don't know.
Saturday, February 18th, 2023 AT 11:41 PM