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SMALL WATER LEAK IN OIL ? WHAT HELPS

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I HAVE A SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER IN THE OIL , ENGINE HAS ALOT OF COMPRESSION AND I CHECKED IT AND THEY ARE ALL WITHIN 5 LBS OF EACH OTHER , I RUN A COPPER HEAD GASKET , WHAT CAN I ADD TO THE WATER TO STOP A SMALL LEAK WITHOUT BREAKING THE WHOLE ENGINE DOWN ?
 
Nothing.

"Stop leak" products are a temporary fix at best, and a complete waste of money at worst.

You need to find the water leak and fix it. If that means tearing the engine down, so be it.

Odds are you have a cracked block, or a bad oring if this is a wet sleeve engine.
 
What Mkirsch said.

Stop leak products only work on the low pressure side of things....I.E. The radiator and such.

If you've got water in the oil, something is bad-azzed wrong.

Allan
 
Is it antifreeze solution or just plain water?

That amount of water in an engine that is run lightly loaded or in cold weather can be normal combustion byproducts/condensation. I'd change the oil and not worry about it.

OTOH if it's coolant then there's a leak somewhere inside the engine that needs attention right now.
 
Just depends on what you call a small leak. Black pepper is one of the best stop leaks if it is small. Works with a leaky head gasket or in a radiator leak. Just recently had a heater core spring a leak, put in a tablespoon of black pepper drove 30 miles and leak stopped. That's been 3 months ago. Not a permanent fix, but is a great temporary. Does not clog a radiator like stop leak products do. Will however turn your liquid into a coffee color. Haven't bought a stop lead product for 40 years.
 
You know, that's what I've always thought too. But my Chevy had the all to common intake gasket desentigration. Was loosing over a quart every few days, (driving 250+ miles a day). I was all ready to pull the top off and switch the gaskets out when a friend told me to try those cheap little $2 brown tablets that come in six packs. Cruched them all up, poured them in and the leak stopped. Been holding since last summer with no coolant loss, to my utter surprise. Not saying they would work in all situations. And I wouldn't have believed it if it hadn't worked for me. Probably just got lucky. I also switched from the GM pink to green. Read a lot of arguments over wether it is caused by the DexCoolant or bad gaskets.
 
take the crankcase off and sit paper under it to see the area it's coming from then decide what to do.
 
Despite what others say stop leak will work if only small crack in solid (not bad rusted) metal. About 5 years ago I got M that had been sitting in ple barn for about 30 years running. Old tractor came to life and ran great, no outside oil leaks, uses no oil, clutch and brakes like new (and I drove them when they were new) BUT it was getting small amount of coolant in oil. Never could pin point leak but determined in was in lower part of block having noyhing to lose poured in 2 bottles of Prestone HD stop leak and it has not leaked a drop since.

About 10 years ago bought 1987 GMC tuck and discovered it had long crack through one of the block drain plugs that was seeping coolant, poured in stop leak, drove it 100K miles leak free. Every time I changed coolant out it would go to leaking until I added another bottle of stop leak.
 
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