Saturn sl

I have oil in my cooling system, and use a lot of oilin my engine. There is
no water in the engine oil.

 

Is the car blue or green?

 

I'm guessing you have a '95 or '96. There was a known casting flaw in
those engines. 1 of the 3 I work on suffered from it. You'll need a new
head.

 

Then you must also be guessing he has a SL1 SOHC? I hate it when people
make vague post. I dont like answering them until they post some useful
details.

 

New head, new water pump, and all new rubber coolant hoses too if the head
is cracked.

Bob

 

The poster stated they had an SL, which has the SOHC motor.

 

I agree about the new hoses, and I'd add a new thermostat. But if you
follow the FSM engine flush procedure, I see no need for a new water pump.
At least, I didn't replace the pump on the one I did, and 30k miles later,
it's still running like a champ.

 

Yes, on the T-Stat ... forgot that. On the water pump, if you have some
miles on the vehicle it is just easier to do it now while it is all apart.
If you don't you may be doing one within the next year and labor will be
minimal since you are in there now anyway.

Bob

 

I had just done the pump a year before, so I skipped it. I agree with the
"since you've got it that far apart you might as well..." While doing the
head, I'd go ahead & replace the timing chain, and possibly the oil pump.

 

SL means nothing to me. He might as well have said S-series! Just so
you know, the S-series came with two engines and one was for S_1's and
the other was for S_2's. (L,C, or W) Oh and one has had casting flaws
and the other never did. So it would be nice to establish what someone
has before sending them in the wrong direction...

 

SL does mean something to Saturn, who sold a car by the name of SL, in
addition to the six you mentioned. As has been mentioned, it had the
same engine as the SL1

 

The SL was the bare bones, few options version of the SL1. Manual
steering, 5-speed only, no right side mirror (was an option), front
speakers only, etc.

 

Sorry I haven't replied earlier were ot of town.
No the car is not a 95-96 but a 98. sl is the bottom of the line saturn
in other words the cheapest. FIve speed standard transmission. Someone
tokd me that the oil cooling lines in the radiator could be leaking what
do you think.

 

Well, there are no oil cooling lines in the radiator, so I doubt that's it.
The automatics have tranny cooler lines, but there are not in the 5-speeds.

I'd do a compression test, and see if you have a bad head gasket.

 

thanks ill try that