Gas in Oil Help

[specks_143]

I just rebuilt my 1997 DOHC 2.0 Plymouth Neon engine and now i smell gas in the oil. Oil is thin as water and oil light stays on all the time. The intake gasket is new with all new bolts torqued as listed in haynes manuel. Also the cooling fans came on and never went off when they finally ran the battery dead they wouldnt come back on when we boosted the car off. Any Ideas pleese help. I love my little neon and really need some help.

[denisond3]

The first thing you need to do is not drive it with the oil diluted that much! The only way I would expect gasoline to get into the oil, would be from a malfunctioing injector, or a cylinder misfiring a lot. I think you would notice an engine running on 3 cylinders! During the rebuild, you would have had the fuel system opened up. A speck of dirt might have gotten into an injector. The fuel system should stay pressurized quite a while after shutting the engine off; but if an injector is leaking, a tablespoon or so of fuel might be able to dribble into a cylinder, past the piston and down into the oil. This could happen each time you operated the engine, and would dilute the oil in a few days of running errands. I dont know any easy way to check injectors for leaks, except by pulling the fuel rail back so the injector nozzles are exposed. And running the fuel pump briefly - by repeatedly turning the ignition on but not starting.