Well I'm not sure yet if its a BHG. I don't have a compression tester on hand but I'm pretty sure there is coolant in the water. i drained some of the oil from the oil pan into a clean water free oil pan and moved it back and forth slowly to create a film of oil in the pan and i see visible green coolant. I gave an oil sample to a expert in the oil field to have it analyzed. The test results should be back in a couple of days. When i pulled off the the hose that connect from the valve cover to the block I noticed a lot of white residue inside of it and when i took the oil cap off i noticed some water sitting on the cam lobe that is visible from the the oil fill spot. When it runs it has a really ruff idle that moves between 490 and 680 and then dies shortly after i let it run for about 1min. So are these pretty good indicators that i have a BHG or could my turbo seal be bad causing it to leak coolant into the oil. Any info or opinion would be welcome as i spent a long time getting this motor so i wouldn't mess up anything
coolant in the oil
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The strange thing was that there was only the white crap in the hose no where else but it didn't really drain all of the oil out which i should.
Just drained the oil and it has a some milky lines going through it but it didn't leak a lot into the oil so i cant get a good pic of it but there is water in the oil.
Its cool the motor has a 6 month unlimited mile warranty on it if anything internal goes wrong, but the gay part is that it took me a month to get this motor and put it in. So the next time around when i get this one out I'm going to have them compression test it right in front of me and the same with the leak down test.
It does sound like a BHG but fwiw there's supposed to be coolant in the water and a bad turbo seal won't cause coolant in the oil...
At least its not the worst it could be....But check that head. Hopefull you havnt been over heating badly
I just put this motor in like a week ago and never drove it was getting engine codes and i still need to replace the windshield so and get it smoged and registered. The place i bought it from ATARCO motors did the HG job on it and it never over heated so I'm think that the gasket didn't seat properly so maybe that's why I have a BHG. I wish i had the money right now to do a MHG but im still waiting on getting my first paycheck from my new job so when i get this motor out and take it back and pick up the other motor there suppose to give me I might just do a MHG job on it with some ARP studs at 75 lb/ft torque. What do you think the price range of the machining work would cost to do a MHG