Traces of Oil in Coolant Passages

[SideMirror]

Hi All, my engine is out for a clutch, new turbos, and gaskets, etc... Taking the hard pipe coolant & aux-after-run pump off. I am seeing traces of oil in the coolant. However, when draining the radiator the coolant is pink without traces of oil. There was no trace of oil in the coolant turbo feed as it drained either. From the pictures, milky fluid is in the upper engine only.

Any ideas? before I replace the head gaskets & oil cooler. I will remove oil pan later this week to check the crankcase components.

I am thinking it is an early head gasket failure possibly exhaust gas leakage. A cylinder compress test before the engine out was five cylinders in the mid 170s and one low 160s.

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[CELison]

I would suspect that's just gunky old coolant. If it was mixing, all of the coolant would turn milkshaky. Clean it out well, flush everything and the heater core and call it a day.

[SideMirror]

I have no heat or very little and you got me thinking that this milky fluid is from there?

The car has been on jack stands for 4 weeks now since I drained the engine fluids. So maybe the H Core has drained into heads while sitting so long. Thanks CELison I'll check it too

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