Engine Coolant Turned to Brown Gel!!!!

[korax123]

OK my coolant gelled up and the car overheated and spit out coolant from the resevior.

It was a brown dirty gel coming out. Im guessing the whole cooling system is plugged up with this crap now.

What would cause this the car is an 04 Redline with 45k miles and I never added any antifreeze to the system. The only thing I can think of is.....if there is an air leak in the system doesn't it gel up???

And how do you add antifreeze to the car for flushing it out, im guessing just adding it to the resivior and it sucks it out of there??

I need some help guys last week the 93 Civic overheated but it was just a bad fan switch and now this so it gets frustrating.

Thanks

[Watts-Up]

Might be a head gasket??? Does it look like there is any oil in the coolant?

[korax123]

Originally Posted by Watts-Up

Might be a head gasket??? Does it look like there is any oil in the coolant?

You know what.... I HATE YOU, I think thats what it is.

The car seemed to dive perfectly fine though.
About 3 days ago I down shifted to second gear and @ 4000 rpm it went to limp mode, but the only code it threw was Supercharger inlet pressure sensor.

This would really suck if it was the head gasket.

[Watts-Up]

Sorry bro. Maybe it's something simple, I have heard stories about the Dexcool going bad and gelling up. Did you check your oil? Check and see if the oil is milky.

[marlinbaltha]

did you ever get your wires from the i/c pump fixed? THey were wired backwards ...

[korax123]

Doesn't look milky on the dipstick, but I am guessing it is.

It smells like oil. The wierd thing is I drove 98 miles today and it ran perfectly fine. No bad idle no lose of power or anything. Wouldn't a bad headgasket idle rough????

[korax123]

Originally Posted by marlinbaltha

did you ever get your wires from the i/c pump fixed? THey were wired backwards ...

That coolant is seperate from your Radiator. The little bottle up front still looks clean.

[Watts-Up]

Originally Posted by korax123

Doesn't look milky on the dipstick, but I am guessing it is.

It smells like oil. The wierd thing is I drove 98 miles today and it ran perfectly fine. No bad idle no lose of power or anything. Wouldn't a bad headgasket idle rough????

Yeah, I think it probably wouldn't run very good, and you probably would be able to see it on the dipstick.Flush it clean and see what happens. Any streamy smoke from the exhaust?

[korax123]

Originally Posted by Watts-Up

Yeah, I think it probably wouldn't run very good, and you probably would be able to see it on the dipstick.Flush it clean and see what happens. Any streamy smoke from the exhaust?

Im not going to start it up at the momment. But i took some pics and it definatly seems like oil in the coolant but the car ran fine.

Here are some pics. I am going to pull the radiator hoses off and see what I have in there.

[Italianjoe1]

Thats def oil. Is the car burning oil? It could just be pushing oil into the coolant through one spot in the gasket and thats it.