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  • Mar 15, 2011, 01:17 PM
    mskaykat
    2004 Chev Cavalier has a milk shake look to the dip stick on the oil. I just had the
    2004 Chev Cavalier has a milk shake look to the dip stick on the oil. I just had the oil changed but they said I have a leaking oil gasket. How long will it last if I keep cooling and oil in the car? The oil is not mixing with the cooling the colling is mixing with the oil. I get dischange from my bankrputcy on May 7th I just need it until then. To get a new car. I have about 8 weeks to go and I drive about 5 miles a day 5 days a week. Please help is there anything I can do to make the car last 8 weeks only.
  • Mar 16, 2011, 01:43 PM
    ma0641
    "Leaking oil gasket" I believe you have a leaking head gasket or a cracked head. Does it overheat or use up coolant? Water in the oil looks like a milkshake. For the short distance you drive, I'd try some type of leak sealer.
  • Mar 16, 2011, 04:23 PM
    smearcase

    Many years ago I had a foamy substance form in the oil filler opening and I believe-under the valve cover. My problem was a clogged pcv valve. That was when emssion controls were pretty basic-nowadays I probably couldn't find the pcv (if there still is one). If I were going to try to make it last 8 weeks, I think that I would change the oil a few times during that time to get as much lubrication as possible.
  • Mar 16, 2011, 04:33 PM
    Stratmando

    I have seen it look more like Pudding, than a milkshake before and would believe it in the "pudding state", and I believe it will not pump.
  • Mar 17, 2011, 05:48 AM
    mskaykat
    NO never I have had the car for 4 years and I never had to add the cooling stuff ( red stuff in the cooling tank) and even now it never runs out. It may get above the middle line. But it goes right back down.
  • Mar 17, 2011, 05:53 AM
    mskaykat
    Also the car had gone the whole winter without a oil change I had let a family member use it and she had not changed the oil since July 2010 I got the car back March 2011 and it only had 2 qts in it. And I immentaly changed the oil. And that's when the guys seen the white slimmy creamy stuff on the dip stick. Which I had send before when I went a whole summer without chanign the oil and the guy said it was slug or something.. I don't know
  • Mar 17, 2011, 06:07 AM
    Stratmando

    Sorry to hear.
    A good mechanic could determine if this is salvageable or not.

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