Waterboxer head gasket do not separate coolant and oil. Loose/broken studs may allow coolant into the oil but oil going into the coolant is usually the oil cooler. Of course the next question would be why did it fail? Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of phil cain Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:19 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Oil in coolent I think you are in for a top job on the engine, if it is like the regular water cooled engines, it means the head gasket is blown, I only have air cooled engines so the water cooled guy's will have to verify this.. Good luck with it. Phil
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