Most likely your oil cooler is going bad, and leaking oil under pressure into your coolant. The way I tested mine was that I bypassed the cooler with a plastic hose coupler and ran the engine for about an hour (keep an eye on temps). When I got back to check it out, oil was dripping out of one of the hose fittings. The replacement cooler was about $150. TomC tcarrington@relitech.com http://www.relitech.com/tomc http://volksweb.relitech.com 85 Vanagon Crew Cab 82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion 81 Checker A-11 (Taxi) 65 Notchback > -----Original Message----- > From: sam pacifico [mailto:samhp@EXECPC.COM] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:32 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Oil in the coolant > > > Help! I just went to check the coolant level in the > expansion tank of my > '87 GL and saw a dark sludge-like substance on top of the > coolant. The > finger-in -the -liquid test confirmed that it is engine oil. > I am hoping > that someone will tell me that this is a problem with the > water pump and > nothing greater! Just prior to this I was telling myself how > great the > engine was running. I had just set the timing and it was > purring, actually > almost silent, at 950 rpm. Your opinion will be appreciated. > |
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