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[albitz]

Keep an eye on your hoses amd HBV for a while.Its not uncommon for them to fail after being soaked in oil from the inside.

[Colin G]

Cheers Albs, will do, changed the HBV while I had it all stripped down.

[Colin G]

Fianal update. just got back from MOT and it passed with NO advisories - think that is the first time ever!!!

[Colin G]

Sorry to resurrect this, I've done about 100miles and everything appears fine however, I've just checked the levels which are all fine but I noticed that there was some oil in the coolant tank, no mayo.  Now the oil on the dipstick is nice and clean as I did an oil change when I put it all back together. The small amount of oil in the coolant tank is as black as your hat, the same colour as the old oil I drained out of the sump.  My question is and I hope the answer is what I think it is, is it likely just to be residual oil from the oil cooler failure?  I did loads of flushing but I did notice some small globs of mayo when I did the final fill with antifreeze and decided I'd give it a couple of weeks of running and then drain down and flush again to finally clear them out.  I notice that there aren't any floating in the coolant tank at the moment.

I shall run for a few more days and see what's what.

Cheers Col

[albitz]

I had the same thing a month or so ago.I thought I might have still had a leak,but quite a lot more flushing cleared it and all was well.

[Colin G]

Thanks albs, I thought it must be residual due to the colour fingers crossed when I delve further.