I'm also facing same problem with my camry.I took it to Toyota for enigne oil change. They told me that they have detected cylinder head gasket-hydrocarbons in the cooling system and recommended disassembly of engine and giving me estimate of around $1500. Is ther eanybody who faced same kind of problem? Can you please let me know how did you over the problem? I would appreciate your help

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Interesting. I have a couple of questions:
1.) Why is it necessary to pull the engine apart when the cooling system is the alleged culprit?
2.) Engine lubicants that are worth using will be gasket compatible, therefore what is the lubricant in the engine?

Thanks for reading my message.
Actually, I don't know much. That's what they told me. As per them there could be some leakage or crack.. I don't understand that exactly. Moreover yesterday, I saw engine check light turned on, when I started running the car. I stopped and opened the hood. I heard some bubble noise. It was the noise like boiling water. I also saw some liquid drained out of somewhere from car.

I know this is an old thread, but this sounds more like your problem is with a leaky head gasket, not not 'oil-gelling.'

In your second post it sounds like your engine overheated (perhaps related to the headgasket? hard to say). Is this the first time the engine overheated? How was your cooling system maintained prior?

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it seems engine was overheated. I had similar problem with my MMC DION.
When i changed timing belt i found some leakage from engine head gasket. It looked like wet spots of oil. I found out that engine was overheated and that was cause odistortion of head geometry and breach hermetic joining.
I disassembled engine( took engine head off ) and applied "liquid" gasket (some MOPAR hermetic for engines) and problem was decided.
If i've got you wrong - sorry.

Hello,

There are many different products on the market for fixing blown head gaskets, the best that I'v seen and used is called HEAL-A-SEAL . You can go on the internet and read more about the product and order at the same time. I must say I had some gelling of oil spots in my anti-frezze and want to my local mech and he told me I have a blown head gasket and it needs to be replaced at the cost $1200.00 - anyway I went onto the internet and found this product. I ordered the product and placed it in my car. No more gelling for me all at the cost of under $250.00 a very nice saving. Hope this helps you.