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V70 T5 Oil in coolant! V70-XC70 1999

posted by  sbennetts on  Fri Sep 26 23:20 CST 2003
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Hi I've got a '99 V70 T5 2.3 turbo and I'm getting crazy amounts of oil in my coolant. My local dealer all too quickly decided it's a head gasket for my liking and promptly quoted me mega bucks for the honour of changing it.

It's a manual so I don't think the auto-transmission fluid thing is a problem, however the turbo, from what I understand is water cooled, how the heck does that work and presumably the turbo bearings are still fed with oil?

The oil is very clean, but it does seem to be losing a lot of it (not burning and not leaking, all straight into the coolant system), very brown sticky mess bubbling out of the expansion tank, seems to be under a very high pressure as well.

I have read previously about radiator replacements doing the trick. What I don't want to get into is replacing the head gasket only to find that isn't the problem after all!

HELP!

Thanks
Simon








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    V70 T5 Oil in coolant! V70-XC70 1999

    posted by  Larry P on  Sat Sep 27 07:34 CST 2003
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    I agree with Arno, and it's unlikely to be the turbo too. Do you have the new style oil cooler on the back bottom of your engine, near the pan? It is bolted on
    and you'd see water hoses going to it. With the high pressure you're seeing, that's not a likely fail point either.








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    V70 T5 Oil in coolant! V70-XC70 1999

    uid 35's pic
    posted by  arno on  Sat Sep 27 01:16 CST 2003
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    Sorry to say, but high pressure in cooling system + oil contamination in coolant sure looks like a head-gasket problem to me.

    On a manual transmission you don't have the transmission oil cooler integrated in the radiator, so that's no issue for you either..

    Bye, Arno.







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