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Author Topic: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mine!  (Read 4542 times)

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MartinP

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Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mine!
« on: 19 August 2006, 22:24:51 »
Got this when I took the oil filter off
















Fortunately it was the 2.5 engine that I stripped  :)
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #1 on: 19 August 2006, 22:38:18 »
That looks cream crackered!!!  :o
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #2 on: 19 August 2006, 23:35:15 »
"water in the oil" thats the head gasket I believe.
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #3 on: 20 August 2006, 02:37:58 »
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"water in the oil" thats the head gasket I believe.

Water in the oil could also be the Oil cooler failing/failed on the V6 models. Although there's a possibility of Headgasket trouble in this situation, I understand the V6 HGs are very resilient, and this is usually a cooler failure.

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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #4 on: 20 August 2006, 08:37:29 »
they way I understand it is,

Water in oil, head gasket.

Oil in water, oil cooler.
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #5 on: 20 August 2006, 10:41:54 »
That amount of water in oil is most likely HG I fear...
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #6 on: 20 August 2006, 16:16:09 »
Hmmm... does not look good.... have you checked for other HG tell-tale signs? Droplets with antifreeze smell in the exhaust fumes? Compression test?

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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #7 on: 20 August 2006, 16:22:08 »
Could still be oil cooler, it dumps a fair amount of water into the oil when the engine is stopped if its failed.

Do you do them with a flake?
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #8 on: 20 August 2006, 18:44:27 »
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Do you do them with a flake?


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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #9 on: 20 August 2006, 22:40:00 »
I did try to post yesterday but got fed up when photobucket crashed the computer twice.

The waterways are all oil free and dry, as is the outside of the oil cooler (have taken loads of pics stripping the engine down)
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #10 on: 20 August 2006, 23:04:48 »
1 head off

« Last Edit: 20 August 2006, 23:05:22 by issunaz »
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #11 on: 20 August 2006, 23:18:40 »
Oil cooler

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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #12 on: 20 August 2006, 23:35:19 »
both heads off and source of the problem



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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #13 on: 21 August 2006, 00:14:42 »
?????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

‘…and then, late in the afternoon, having nothing better to do for the remains of the day Issunaz removed the engine from the Omega and dismantled it, as one does….’


Ahhhmmmm……





« Last Edit: 21 August 2006, 00:15:07 by markjay »
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Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
« Reply #14 on: 21 August 2006, 09:53:24 »
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Cheers...could just go a pint of Boddingtons  ;) ;D

*B#st#rd!, why dont those pics work when quoted?
« Last Edit: 21 August 2006, 09:54:16 by MadOnVaux »
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