Massive Oil Release

[jfoj]

Hard to tell from the latest pictures.

If there is mayo or milkshake in the motor, then this may not be a frozen CCV, but a blow headgasket or some other major engine failure.

Usually mayo just builds up on the underside of the oil fill cap and valve cover and can and will get caught and frozen in the CCV and hoses, but rarely mixes in the oil.

BTW, what is the oil level as indicated on the dipstick? With a much oil that came out, you should probably not have oil or what ever on the dipstick.

Did you check the coolant level as well?

[Rush]

Originally Posted by jfoj

Hard to tell from the latest pictures.

If there is mayo or milkshake in the motor, then this may not be a frozen CCV, but a blow headgasket or some other major engine failure.

Usually mayo just builds up on the underside of the oil fill cap and valve cover and can and will get caught and frozen in the CCV and hoses, but rarely mixes in the oil.

BTW, what is the oil level as indicated on the dipstick? With a much oil that came out, you should probably not have oil or what ever on the dipstick.

Did you check the coolant level as well?

The head gaskets are fine and I'll check the coolant, but I thought I read on another thread here that the engine has to be warm to check the actual oil level?

Looking at it in retrospect, it lost maybe a quart, all at once. The car isn't dripping.

I probably shouldn't run it for twenty minutes just for that....

[jfoj]

Originally Posted by Rush

The head gaskets are fine and I'll check the coolant, but I thought I read on another thread here that the engine has to be warm to check the actual oil level?

Looking at it in retrospect, it lost maybe a quart, all at once. The car isn't dripping.

I probably shouldn't run it for twenty minutes just for that....

You can check the oil cold, it may be a bit low, but again, hard to tell how much oil made it out of the engine and how much is left.

As warm as it is now, I might be inclined to start the engine, check for leaks and if no leaks, let it warm up a bit.

But the oil had to have come from somewhere, I do not know the V8 CCV system, but for oil to have come out something would have had to froze and split or cracked unless there was pressure built up and it sprayed out the top of the dipstick tube or blew out a valve cover gasket.

Do you have an idea where is came from?