AHH Car wont crank.

Ok, Some of you know that I posted a prevous post on this issue but I have found some recent symptoms.. there is water in my oil... I pulled the valve cover and all the oil in there was grey and cloudy so I suspect that there was water in there. so I drained my oil... and now I dont know what else to do.... Any suggestion please let me know... thanks
J

pull your head off see if you have bad valves i had a simailar problem and i was able to get the head taken care of fo about $350

I'm pretty sure that bent valves woundn't cause water in the oil. The most likely you problem is a blown head gasket or possibly a warped head. If i'm reading your previous post correctly when you crank the car it sounds like the engine is just spinning but doesn't want to fire like you cant actually hear the compression the quickest way to check this is to hook up a compression tester and see if you have any compression at all if you don't then you have to pull the head and go from there.

I agree with KSR on this one.

Where can I get a test for that?
and how much do you think they run.

With water in the oil it's pretty much guaranteed that you have a bad head gasket. But a compression tester will cost around $25, and it's pretty easy to do yourself.

well if you take it to a shop they'll charge you an hours worth of labor to do it... basically just buy the tester which just looks like a gauge with a rubber hose hanging out the end then screw it into the spark plug holes one by one and crank the motor. When you see a large difference between cylinders that is where the problem is... normally i would say to disable the motor first so that it doesn't start running on 3 cylinders while you are testing but it doesn't sound like there is much danger of that happening in your case. As far as readings go i wouldn't trust the gauge to say "yea i have 160 psi" cause i dont think they're that accurate but they will give you a real good idea when you compare them to each other. if you have like more then 10 or 15 psi difference then there is a problem... hope this helps.