FIND THE LEAK before placing blame, or unreasonable suspicion.
WHAT VEHICLE IS THIS? Tell me this isn't a Vortec V-8 with the infamous intake gaskets.
WHAT VEHICLE IS THIS? Tell me this isn't a Vortec V-8 with the infamous intake gaskets.
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FIND THE LEAK before placing blame, or unreasonable suspicion.
WHAT VEHICLE IS THIS? Tell me this isn't a Vortec V-8 with the infamous intake gaskets.
Are you sure the intake is covered in oil, and not congealed, dirty coolant? This would be especially likely if the "oil" is thickest around the front and rear of the manifold, where the coolant passages in the head wet the manifold.
How bad is the oil contaminated? Can you change oil and filter, top off the coolant, and drive to a car-wash? Blast the engine with hot soapy water, clean off all the sludge from the outside. Assure that the distributor has no moisture inside, start it and drive home. Then put a pressure tester on the cooling system--about 16 psi should do it. Pressure testers may be available for rent at a local auto parts store. See if you find any visible leakage from the cooling system especially the intake gaskets. If the gaskets are leaking coolant outside, they're probably also leaking coolant into the crankcase.
Other options are a cracked head or block. You'd maybe see a cracked head leakiing into the oil system by pulling a valve cover and looking for traces of coolant. Or pull the intake manifold--if the V-6 uses the same style of intake gasket that the V-8s did, you're likely going to need to do this anyway--and look for coolant traces in the lifter valley after you remove the pressure tester and then remove the intake manifold.
My Lumina uses the sort of plastic-carrier-with-Silicone seals intake gasket; they were known to tear the silicone seals on that engine, too. In my case, it leaked air into the intake runners causing a fast, rough idle.
Although I understand what you are saying, I border on OCD with frequently checking oil. Pretty much every recent day that I drove it leading up to the day that it was brought into the shop for the transmission, I checked it before driving it and it looked like oil, not coolant mixed with oil. Had multiple trips beforehand that included multiple hour drives with no problems other than the transmission not shifting right.
It showed signs of trouble probably less than 10 minutes into the drive home from picking it up.
He had mentioned something about seeing a loose radiator hose and topping off the coolant and that it should be okay.
In terms of everything that I have been taught in life by the military and growing up, is that you have have to take a little bit of ownership in a situation if you miss something or **** up. It's a system he said he touched, so if there was an issue beforehand, he failed to diagnose it. Or maybe he caused an issue.
So you're looking for affirmation and a pile on, not really asking if it's reasonable? For a guy trying to blame the mechanic for his woes it's somewhat amusing to see you cry about taking responsibility.
That's right, it's everyone else's fault. Call these guys
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