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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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