is there a cossie tuner available to have a chat with about a massive oil/water mix.

story in short, took a perfectly good engine out of one cossie and put in another within 30 seconds to a minute of running the nice new oil and coolant looked like a mcdonalds strawbery milkshake.

any other advise would be helpful, cheers.

 

Oil modeane broken ?

The oil water cooler.

Steve.

 

how do i tell?

 

If it happened when you first started the engine, have you got any pipes crossed over, oil/water?


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i'm very confident that i have'nt, but i do have a element of doubt now

as far i know there are only three place's where oil and water get close,

the turbo and you'd have to be a blind fool to get them wrong,
the head gasket, i find it hard to belive that it could have mixed 6 litres of coolant and 4 litres of oil in just over 30 secs and the engine ran perfectly before it was removed,
and the factory oil cooler, now there are two pipes out of this one to the heater matrix and one just at the back of the inlet manifold. only one of these was removed, the one to the heater matrix which has been put back in its proper place.

so i'm still none the wiser.

 

why was the engine swapped ? could it be crap in the old cooling system?is there water in oil or just water in oil?

 

Engine was swapped because the old one was very tired. From speaking to Steve on the phone the header tank was empty of the 30 secs of running hence he couldnt see if it had mixed with the coolant, I dont think he has dropped the coolant from the radiator yet. He has drained the oil and as he said above its mixed with allot of coolant. I cant see it being the headgasket as it ran fine in the old car drove it the night before we took it out, any other ideas?

 

have droped the coolant out of the rad and it looked fine, also checked the water swirl pot that looked fine and the same with the water return from the turbo

can't se any contamination there, so i would say that its just water getting into the oil.

still no wiser!