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Date:         Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:59:04 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil in the coolant
Comments: To: Finn Runyon <finnrunyon@GMAIL.COM>
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Hi Finn,Oil in the coolant could possibly be due to a failed oil cooler. I have seen this before, where the oil cooler fails, then oil gets in the cooling system, then the oil weakens a hose and it blows. I helped someone clean out the oil from the cooling system by adding Shout to the system- then flushing it out. I would swap out the oil cooler first, which is my guess of why the hose blew. Robert1982 Westfalia


--- On Mon, 1/2/12, Finn Runyon <finnrunyon@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Finn Runyon <finnrunyon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Oil in the coolant
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, January 2, 2012, 5:56 AM


I have been off the list for some time.  I have had an 87 Westy for about
15 years that I moved this summer from Princeton NJ  to Taos NM.  The 87
has pretty bad cancer, and I got the itch to purchase a second, rust free
west coat bus, do either the Bostig or Subaru conversion, and give the 87
to my Daughter and Son in Law.  So I found the perfect project bus, an 89
with an clean body, clean interior, newly rebuilt 4 speed with
positraction, new Rhein rims and Nokian tires, but on a recent climb up a
Colorado mountain pass a hose blew and it over heated.  It starts and runs
smoothly, however there is oil in the coolant, but not coolant in the oil.
 Have any of you had this issue, and as I am not  in the position to do the
engine swap this winter, and what are the chances that simply doing the
heads would buy me some time on the 2.1?  The 2.1 had been recently rebuilt
and was strong I hear.


Glad to be back!
Finn Runyon
Blue 87 Westy, Pooh Bear (Named by my Daughter who will get Him)
Red 89  Westy, Roo (Have to keep the Christopher Robin theme going here and
a buddy of mine here in Taos owns a 90 named Tigger)
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