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Title: Oil in Water???
Post by: DTC on 27 April 2011, 23:45:06
Just dipped an old rag in the expansion bottle and there seems to be a residue which has copper grease in it.

Any ideas?
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: Broomies Mate on 27 April 2011, 23:46:30
Copper Grease on your old rag?  :-?
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: geoffr70 on 27 April 2011, 23:48:14
oil cooler can fail, which can give siimilar symptoms to hg failure.

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1209123017
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: henryd on 27 April 2011, 23:48:45
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Just dipped an old rag in the expansion bottle and there seems to be a residue which has copper grease in it.

Any ideas?

has anyone used a can of K seal in the system to stop a leak as that leaves a coppery residue in the coolant
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: DTC on 28 April 2011, 16:41:21
could be, I really don't want to go to the expense of an oil cooler just yet, would it be an idea to give the cooling system a good thorough flushing add new anti freeze and a bottle of K Seal and see how I go?
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: henryd on 28 April 2011, 16:52:14
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could be, I really don't want to go to the expense of an oil cooler just yet, would it be an idea to give the cooling system a good thorough flushing add new anti freeze and a bottle of K Seal and see how I go?

I would give it a flush and new coolant but don't add anything else to it or you won't know if there's a leak that you are covering up :y
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: DTC on 28 April 2011, 17:21:30
Anybody have any ideas on this K seal? I am getting mixed reports on it
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: ffcgary1 on 28 April 2011, 18:02:26
AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE,nasty stuff does more harm than good. Do the oil cooler as when it does let go you wil have whole lot of crap to flush and that is not a 5 min fix. :o
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: bored bigyin54 on 28 April 2011, 20:21:27
i know got that now in my 2.5 v6 a load off sluge
Title: Re: Oil in Water???
Post by: TheBoy on 28 April 2011, 20:42:59
flush it, but dont stick k-seal in

If it becomes slightly oily, stop, and dont drive until oil cooler is replaced