Date:         Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:39:58 -0800
Reply-To:     Patrick Harris <harrisvanagon@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Patrick Harris <harrisvanagon@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Water in oil
Comments: To: joebro@NETZERO.NET
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Greetings,

Three words:  Blown Head Gasket

That gasket keeps the two fluids away from each other.  Pressure is not the
thing you should be concerned about.  You can easily fry your engine or
heads if you haven't already.  Better get it fixed ASAP.

Best of luck.

Patrick


>Hi ,
>I am new to the list. I have a 1985 Westfalia. I was driving it and
>glanced down to notice the temp gauge reading all the way hot, i pulled
>in to home and parked it. When it cooled i checked the coolant and I had
>oil in the coolant which turned to grease because of the heat. The car
>is a 1.9 so it doesn't have an oil cooler on it. I have seen water in
>oil before but not the oil in water since I assumed the pressure in the
>cooling system is higher that the oil. Any ideas what it could be? Is it
>it head related ,block or what? Any help would be appreciated
>
>Thanks
>Joe


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