Cloudy Oil during Routine Oil Change

You’d be surprised on how much can build up!!! We had compressors at work that would short cycle because if some of the limits set on the system surge tanks. I’m talking these things would hold 2.5-3 quarts of oil and when you’d pull the filler cap at least that same amount of water would puke out before you’d see any oil. This would happen over a period of just a few months and these were even indoors. We started putting magnetic block heaters on them just to keep the oil warm all the time.
So short trips in a car is like a compressor short cycling. Yes we are all trying to theorize as to what’s going on but there is a definite possibility that condensation like this can accumulate if the engine is constantly warming and cooling but it isn’t getting hot enough to flash off the condensation.

 

Something I see often in internal combustion forklift engines. Not the ones running all day in a warehouse. The ones, they make widgets, a truck delivers widget parts, they turn it on, unload, turn it off, it ran for maybe 3 minutes. Change the oil maybe once every 1-3 years. The oil cap is rusted to the valve cover. What comes out us unbelievable.

 

Yikes, last time I saw anything like this was with my 1978 TransAm that I had opened the intake scoop on. When the car was old and mostly sat we had a big snow dump and when it melted from the hood it ran down through the carb into the engine. Like one big chocolate milkshake. Changed it and it was fine. But in this case I suspect it is the head gasket as already mentioned.