Creamy Sludge???

[golf gti 16valve]

Hi ppl, i removed my engine breather pipe from my airbox and noticed a load of creamy stuff in it, when water mixes with oil!, its only in the breather pipe,so i dont think its a head gaket, the water never needs topping up, theres no white smoke, the engine runs fine from cold, theres no sludge under the oil cap, and when i shine a torch into the block where the breather pipe goes theres no evidence of it in their either, Just in the breather pipe and in the airbox,looks like its been sucked into airbox, i do have a KnN panel filter and drilled air box.
im thinking its just where the pipes old,and when you start up from cold the pipe is cold, so condensation forms in it?

Any suggestions?? Thanks

Tom

[Si]

I got creamy sludge under my oil cap. Nothing to worry about i dont think. 
This is where someone tells me my engine is about to go boom?!! 

[pinkcrush]

i had that once on a orion, it was the head gasket

good luck

[Maltloaf]

You sometimes get that this time of year if you do a lot of short journeys. Try running it up to temperature and go up and down the motorway a junction or so. it might clear it up.

[Veedub1989]

under oil cap normally means headgasket  . get a compression test sorted sharpish.

the white sludge in your breather (and no where else) is most likely formed due to condensation building up as the engine isnt getting hot enough for long enough for it to be evaporated... i guess you're using your mk2 only on short journeys? this is most likely the case. just wash it out with WD40 or i found using a rag stuffed in there with a screw driver worked the best. as long as you havent got any under your cap you're fine mate 

[Si]

i had that once on a orion, it was the head gasket

good luck

Yeah but that was a Ford!  

[Si]

under oil cap normally means headgasket  . get a compression test sorted sharpish.

the white sludge in your breather (and no where else) is most likely formed due to condensation building up as the engine isnt getting hot enough for long enough for it to be evaporated... i guess you're using your mk2 only on short journeys? this is most likely the case. just wash it out with WD40 or i found using a rag stuffed in there with a screw driver worked the best. as long as you havent got any under your cap you're fine mate 

Thats only water bottle i thought?

[Maltloaf]

I would have thought if water mixes with oil it will produce creaming any where it can condense?

[rubjonny]

Nowt to worry about both mine & Jame_S gets loads of sludge in the breathers, if its under the cap it can be slightly more worrying.

Si: Since your engine is running too cool I recon this is the cause of the condensation under the cap, its even less likley to get up to a high enough temp to burn off all the condensation, so even more sludge

[Si]

Nowt to worry about both mine & Jame_S gets loads of sludge in the breathers, if its under the cap it can be slightly more worrying.

Si: Since your engine is running too cool I recon this is the cause of the condensation under the cap, its even less likley to get up to a high enough temp to burn off all the condensation, so even more sludge

Thank god for that!