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Old 10-24-18, 07:14 PM
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Yellow junk in oil top

Recently the car got a little hot cuz a coolant line broke and lucky the light started blinking I got to pull over and fix it car is running great changed the oil coolant today I bought liquid molly friction reducer and I went to open my oil cap and there was yellow junk there what can that be ? https://imgur.com/a/HZN8zL7
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That is called lung butter in the rotary world. Its a result of condensation collecting over time and depositing gunk there at the top of the oil fill tube. If you are completely stock with the full rats nest, you will need to make sure all the evaporation emissions stuff is working. If you have stripped out the rats nest you need to hook a PCV valve to the nipple on the oil tube and have it attached to a light vacuum source like the air cleaner. That way the moist air can get evacuated from the block when the car is running. Personally, I run my tank vent line into the nipple on the center iron near the base of the oil fill tube and then have the pcv valve on the oil tube nipple and it goes to the bottom of my air cleaner.
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plenty of info on this issue. just do a search for lung butter.
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