boat hauler said:
I thought I had oil in my antifreeze but people are telling me fuel instead. I have a scum line on the top of the antifreeze. Smells like varnish. How does a guy troubleshoot this? What are the most common ways fuel gets in the antifreeze? Cracked head? Cups? Any easy places to look first.
Man, I am not looking forward to paying this bill. Truck runs great. No smoke or miss as far as I can tell. It does smell like diesel fuel in the cab. Don't know if it is due to this or what.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
is it a brown scummy looking stuff, 02 was the first year they put the stop leak additive in the anti freeze and many folks experienced brown nasty looking stuff around the upper edges of the degas bottle, gets worse with time. feels oily to, smells like POOP
i believe their was a tsb or something on it, its been awhile
Premium Gold Engine Coolant:
2002 trucks originally equiped with Premium Gold (yellow) coolant should not have DCA/SCA's added to the cooling system. It should not be mixed with conventional (usually green) engine coolants. Ford is also recommending not to drain the Gold coolant and replace it with green coolant, or to recycle and reuse the Gold coolant. Engineering is checking on compatibility in older systems, but at this time use green if it came with green and Gold if it came with Gold.
Trucks originally filled with Gold coolant:
All 2002 F-Series built at the Kentucky Truck Plant (VIN 11th digit "E")
2002 F150-550 built in Cuautitlan (VIN "M") from 2-4-02
2002 F650/750 built in Cuautitlan from 1-28-02
All Econolines built from 7-15-02
you have to pressure test the system to know for sure if you think its oil or fuel
fuel is not as likely as oil would be,
i see a quick search this is posted at the drama place as well, i guess its good my IP changed and i can look around from time to time
how bout giving us ALL the details on what was fixed like the oil cooler and the other things that was repaired or taken apart
or is it the folks at tds wont answer so.
you try here,
should have come here first
and one more tid bit, if you changed the oil cooler and then got the oil fuel looking stuff in the degas bottle i would look at the cooler as suspect first, maybe a pinched o ring etc, is your oil consumption up or down? how about coolant level up or down???