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1993 camaro V6 3.4 lt water and oil mixing could it be water pump

I have oil and water mixing. I replaced my head gasket and upper and lower intake manifold gasket two years ago. Is there any other way for water and oil to mix? Could the water pump allow for oil and water to mix? I only put 20,000 miles on the car since I did all that work. Just trying to come up with some other way for water and oil to mix. Thanks for the help

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Yes there is another way, someone can be messing with your head and pouring water in your oil cap. Do have water in your oil or oil in your water or both? A product called sea foam does a miraculous job at getting water out of oil. As far as keeping it from happening further, the cheap way of course is "bar's stop leak" but man can this stuff do a number on clogging your heater core, even if they say it doesn't, it can happen.

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