Is it normal for our engine oil to have a gasoline scent?

[PunkST]

Mine only stumbled when the charcoal canister had a big crack in it from road debris. I could over fill it and it wouldnt stumble.

 

[thecman02]

Sprinkle Star, what does your daily commute look like and what region do you live?

Assuming a normal functioning car, gasoline will tend to build up in oil from normal blow by when commutes are short during winter because the oil hasn't warmed up high enough to evaporate/burn off moistur/fuel..

It sounds like since your stock tune, you don't have access to logs for fuel trims. If you don't have misfires while driving, no trouble codes, i wouldn't be too concerned. If you only have short commutes, I'd say you should try to get out once a week on a good 30+ minute steady state drive. It should burn off the normal amounts of moisture/fuel that accumulates assuming a correctly functioning PCV.

 

[Clint Beastwood]

Did you get a CEL?

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no cel, but my evap was malfunctioning so badly that gas was getting into my oil and causing the level to increase between oilchanges, and resulted in burning oil once the oil level got too high.

 

[FiSTerMr]

no cel, but my evap was malfunctioning so badly that gas was getting into my oil and causing the level to increase between oilchanges, and resulted in burning oil once the oil level got too high.

Were getting stumbling outside of just gassing up?

Edit: thanks for the input, btw [emoji106]

 

[Sprinkle_Star]

Sprinkle Star, what does your daily commute look like and what region do you live?

Assuming a normal functioning car, gasoline will tend to build up in oil from normal blow by when commutes are short during winter because the oil hasn't warmed up high enough to evaporate/burn off moistur/fuel..

It sounds like since your stock tune, you don't have access to logs for fuel trims. If you don't have misfires while driving, no trouble codes, i wouldn't be too concerned. If you only have short commutes, I'd say you should try to get out once a week on a good 30+ minute steady state drive. It should burn off the normal amounts of moisture/fuel that accumulates assuming a correctly functioning PCV.

I have a 45 minute drive each way to work, and I'm from northern Virginia, so yeah - cold winters.

BTW guys, I was finally able to accurately check my oil level, and all is good! I saw no white smoke coming from exhaust either. One of my co-workers is super hardcore into working on cars and I asked his opinion about whether or not the oil smelled like it had gasoline. He said it smelled normal, so perhaps I was over-thinking everything :0)

 

[Intuit]

Not having smelled the oil, I agree with your co-worker.

 

[Sprinkle_Star]

no cel, but my evap was malfunctioning so badly that gas was getting into my oil and causing the level to increase between oilchanges, and resulted in burning oil once the oil level got too high.

Did your ride have a large or small evap leak?