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Originally Posted by san rensho
Like runjmc said, check if there is oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil. If there is oil in the coolant, don't panic, it could be a failed oil cooler which is any easy fix, except for cleaning out the cooling system. If there is coolant in the oil, that's not good.
Take off the serpentine belt and crank the motor by hand. If it binds, then you have a major problem. If not, take out the spark plugs and see if coolant is in he cylinders, if so you have a major problem.
If you don't have any of the above problems, then it could just be the car overheated and barfedcoolant. Fill up he coolant reservoir and see I it starts. If so, check the cooling system for faults. Hopefully it's just a waterpumpmor a cracked coolant reservoir.
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Question: Looked inside the coolant reservoir and saw drops of oil floating on the remaining coolant. This is in response to your coolant in the oil verses oil in the coolant comment. I don't understand how failure of the coolant/oil heat exchanger would allow coolant to get into exhaust system. What is the connection?
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