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Accidentally spilled water into oil! Change or not?
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I think thelostotter was pulling your leg....having you on....ribbing you; like the following:
Jack up the front end of your car and remove the front wheels. Lay a tarp on the ground beneath the engine and forward of the firewall.
Lower the car to the ground.
Open the hood and pour uncooked white rice into the engine bay. ~200kg will do.
Close the hood and let the rice absorb the water as you would a cell phone dropped in a sink.
If no rice is available just drive the vehicle.
Jack up the front end of your car and remove the front wheels. Lay a tarp on the ground beneath the engine and forward of the firewall.
Lower the car to the ground.
Open the hood and pour uncooked white rice into the engine bay. ~200kg will do.
Close the hood and let the rice absorb the water as you would a cell phone dropped in a sink.
If no rice is available just drive the vehicle.
Right, seemed a little overkill lol, like if somebody walks by you smoking a cigarette and just in case you go to get tested for if you have lung cancer now lol
If when cold the water is indeed at the bottom of the sump then just drain about 1/2 -1 litre of oil. I would think anything other than that would be going overboard. Then again we're on a site where overboard is commonplace. Or just run it at full operating temp for a while. Good luck
It's already been burned off if you drove it quite awhile at full operating temperature.
About 100 ish miles, hasn't blown up ( yet )
Give it an Italian tune up.
When in doubt change it out. You asked the "experts" and have conflicting opinions, if you still are unsure dump it.
Can’t imagine how this happened but if water is allowed into the engine there is probably a fair assumption that some careless activities are occurring with this car anyway…
Run it and forget about it.
This is silly.
I was changig the rocker cover gasket, i opened a bottle of water and accidentally spilled some
Since you had the rocker cover off you now have two reasons to change the oil (possible dust contamination). I would change the oil.
This is a very small amount of water. Just keep running it. Engines are not hermetically sealed to water. Burning gas creates water, blowby when the engine is cold condenses a small amount of water into the crankcase. In cold climates many vehicles will see water buildup on the oil cap due to the moisture in the crankcase.
Just run the engine. getting the engine oil up to temp with a working crankcase ventilation will pull all the water out in no time.
Just run the engine. getting the engine oil up to temp with a working crankcase ventilation will pull all the water out in no time.
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Put some Seafoam in and/or let it idle.
Maybe you get a cleaner OCI out of this.
Maybe you get a cleaner OCI out of this.
Exactly! Water is a natural byproduct of combustion.
Burning a gallon of gasoline produces 8.6# of water. Some of it is going to find its way into the crankcase.
Oil filter has already taken care of that.
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It's gone.About 100 ish miles, hasn't blown up ( yet )
