Froze and blew out one freeze plug, replace freeze plug and coolant upon restarting engine runs hot and has oil in water
SOURCE: My engine is cutting out badly on '96 dakota 4-cyl
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First place I'd look is at the thermostat. However, if the hose did not rupture in a normal manner and blew apart, I'd also suspect that you may have a blown head gasket. In that case, compression is entering the cooling system which is not designed to handle such high pressures, therefore causing the hose to explode). This will also result in rough running you observed.
SOURCE: blown head gasket
Check for possible water in oil, also remove radiator cap and start engine does water want to pump out of radiator, is there white smoke coming out of tail pipe, if yes to any of those blown head gasket, if not sure yet remove spark plugs crank engine over is there any coolant coming out of spark plug holes, if yes blown head gasket, and last have a block test any repair shop can do this.Good luck
SOURCE: 1992 Dodge Dakota , 6
try changing the oil and then see what happens, best guess is a head gasket, the dodges rearly crack heads but do blow head gaskets, lets hope that the watter in the oil is just condensation and that it will be ok......GOOD LUCK
by the way there is no freeze plug that can put water in the oil....sorry
SOURCE: While driving on the highway
is the engine turning over? if not, then you may have expansion of the pistons which have lock them selfs in the bore of the cylinders and because you found the oil diluted with water you may have failed bearings, you may also have had water leak into the cylinder because of a blown head gasket creating a hydraulic lock. in this case remove spark plugs and try cranking engine if any water was traped it will come true the plug holes. Now if the engine is turning over when you try to crank the you may have blown head gasket and posibly a warp or cracked cylinder head. Seeing that you all had a faulty temp gauge or sending unit, that engine may have to be remove and torn down to find the extent of damage done. remove head first check for cracks,flatness and preasure test it.
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