Is it dying?

Tinkering around with my cabby the other day trying to find out why ive got a slow drain on my battery which I think could be bad earthing and I decided to check my oil while I was out messing and to my horror the dipstick was caked in mayonaise I checked the oil filler cap and this also had a bit (not much) under there as well.
It dosent seem to be losing water/coolant though.
Ive not been doing many miles recently only short-ish journeys between 5-10 miles at a time and the dipstick plastic cap thingy is snapped, Could it just be condensation?

thanks


Edit: oops sorry mods this should be in the big block carb engines forum.

if you  not doin loads of miles then yea it could be condenstion, :dontknow:

dont forget that condenstion will rot your mild steel exshust quicker aswell,so if your only short jurnys get a push bike.lol :dontknow:

what age is it, later ones had a oil-water cooler, look under the oil filter housing its the block thing with 2 coolant hoses to it. if these fail oil & water will mix, tho generally your coolant gets oil in, not the other way round. mayo on the dipstick is a bad sign though, generally condensation will only appear on the oil filler cap, not the dipstick.

take it for a good long run to allow oil temps to get right up for a while, then check again

I'll try and get it out for a good long run this weekend if I can.

When you say bad sign, what sort of bad sign?  

usually means head gasket failure

even when my oil cooler went there was no mayo in the dipstick

Small update on this.

Today I went for a bit of a cruise approx 25-30 miles, its the first time ive had it out in over two weeks. Soon as I got back I checked the dipstick and oil filler cap and no mayo in sight, still not losing any water/coolant and to be honest when she warmed up she drove very well. I ordered a new dipstick guide cap thingy from ebay a few weeks back and fitted it before my run out this morning. Ill be having a few more spins out this week as ive a few days off work so i'll keep checking the dipstick.

sounds like the same problem i had with my cabby. is almost definatly just condensation. a compression check would help to find if it is head gasket or not. these can be bought for a few quid from somewhere like halfords.

sounds like the same problem i had with my cabby. is almost definatly just condensation. a compression check would help to find if it is head gasket or not. these can be bought for a few quid from somewhere like halfords.

I took it for a good few drives out that week did approx 100 miles in total and still no mayo so thank goodness its looking like it was condensation. I borrowed a compression testing kit off my Dad so i'll still give it a test when I get the time over the coming weeks.

cheers.