so today i was about to go up to the mountains to do snow snowboarding and sledding and playing in the snow and as i pulled out of my driveway and heading up my street my truck bogged a little and i thought to myself this is weird so i slowed down and went again and next thing i know my motor is knocking like a sob and my truck has 0 power i had to do full throttle even to move so as i turn around with this knocking noise i park it in the driveway and i look under the hood and i check the dipstick and it looks good and i open the oil filler cap and see this, also there is alot of pressure building up in the valve covers


when i felt it it had the feel of grease

in my mind a head gasket would do this but would it make it run really rough and have no power?

so tomorrow begins the tear down and i will update the thread with pictures and details as often as possible

ps where can i get an engine service manual?


and if anyone has any advice please feel free to put your .02cents in

 

it looks like someone poured something in your engine.

 

nobody besides me has access to my truck most of the time..

 

Oh bummer dude. That sucks.. Hope you get it fixed.

 

yea i will for get it fixed it is just a matter of how long and how much money i have to put in to it

 

Good Luck Kale hopefully won't be to costly almost looks like water got mixed with the oil

 

When I blew a head gasket in my mustang, my oil cap looked just like yours, just like you described it "greasy". Sorry for your trouble, hope you figure it out.

 

definitely looks like others have said, head gasket. what is the coolant level like on the truck?

 

hold your horses now... dont just jump off the deep end. you said the dipstick looks good right? well, whats heavier, water, or oil? Answer- water. so, if you had water (coolant) in your oil, it would show on your dipstick.

my question to you is this: do you make a lot of short trips, where the truck doesnt maintain operating temp for a good length of time? if yes, then that is what is causing your milky mess under the oil filler. it is very common, and is caused by condensation not being burned off due to short trips.

sounds to me like your problem is elsewhere, and you just so happened to notice this at the same time. i would first pull your valve covers and inspect things. possibly you lost a timing chain, which would certainly cause symptoms you mention.

you need to do a llittle detective work, and post back so we can help you more. i see that you have a supercharger installed, but what engine is it?

 

Oh ya HEADGASKET baby. Iv seen that same symptom on many Tauruses. Have you pulled the spark plugs yet? It looks like the gasket has blown between the water and oil chambers but if its been getting water in the oil it would have boosted the oil pressure to the point that it may have blown the gasket between the chambers and the cylinders or the outside of the block. If it has blown into the cylinders the bogging down problem could be that enough water has gotten into the cylinders to rust the spark plugs over. I would definitely pull the plugs to check for rust. Anybody who has ever owned a early-mid nineties Ford V-6 knows all about head gaskets.