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Trouble... Oil and coolant mixed. HELP
Hello all,
my friends 986S (2001 manual) suddenly overheated. Upon inspection, we found out that there is oil and coolant mixed in the engine creating a nasty soapy sludge. Could it be a water/oil heat exchanger ? What happens in this case ? Shall he buy an exchange engine ? |
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09-15-2007, 02:37 PM
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I see that this thread has many views so far, but no reply.
Please suggest your ideas of what should be checked before engine removal. Do these cars have a heat exchanger hat goes wrong as per the 996s ? |
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09-15-2007, 11:33 PM
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oil + coolant usually = head gasket failure.
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My engine just blew last night. The dealer said oil had gotten into the coolant. They wanted to start with a compression test to see if a head gasket is blown. There is another way for coolant to get into the oil but it's easy to start with a compression test. If it fails the compression test it's a head gasket. If it passes the compression test it could be one of two other items, one of which requires you to scrap the engine the other is repairable. The dealer referred a possibility of a "porous" block, I assume this is dealer talk for "we don't know and can't know how it's happening". If the block is porous buy a new engine. The other possibility was some sort of cooler or exchange I don't recall exactly what it was.
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