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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #15 on: 01 October 2006, 20:53:56 »
If there are no signs of water in the oil or on the dipstick it will be 99% oil cooler. I had exactly the same symptons, thinking it was head gasket but it wasn't. Check your oil and report back. Commonly wrongly diagnosed as HG
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #16 on: 01 October 2006, 20:54:35 »
So any way apart from taking it all apart to ascertain if it is defo the oil cooler?

Apologies for my ignorance, I'm normally helping others out with queries on 8v and 16v engines lol
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #17 on: 01 October 2006, 21:18:44 »
Its deffo oil cooler....nuff said.....its worth flushing the hoses etc when you do it to....if your not going to do it soon then flush the coolant system to stop the rubber absorbing the oil.
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #18 on: 02 October 2006, 07:12:24 »
Ok thanks for all your help  8-)
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #19 on: 03 October 2006, 14:13:18 »
Got to the oil cooler today..

I'm confused. Was expecting a little rad type thing.

All I have is a length of copper pipe roughly 12mm in diameter, connected to the oil pipes by two right angled connectors  :o

This right??

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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #20 on: 03 October 2006, 14:22:18 »
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #21 on: 03 October 2006, 14:27:23 »
No it looks nothing like that lol, I know what one looks like but thats not what I have removed today..

Will try borrow a camera and take a picture for you
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #22 on: 03 October 2006, 14:45:32 »
I bet somebody has been in there before and bodged a bypass pipe in....post a pic (or send to me and I will host/post it)
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #23 on: 03 October 2006, 14:47:29 »
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I bet somebody has been in there before and bodged a bypass pipe in....post a pic (or send to me and I will host/post it)

I was thinking exactly the same thing but being as I dont have a v6 thought maybe its a different design or something.
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #24 on: 03 October 2006, 17:11:35 »
Here's the pics as promised..





Quite clearly not GM ;)
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #25 on: 03 October 2006, 17:17:06 »
No huge surprise that it failed then....classic!

So, do we start a poll......Vaux dealer fit?
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #26 on: 03 October 2006, 18:06:13 »
Cowboys....  >:(
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #27 on: 14 October 2006, 11:45:25 »
So whats the outcome here - oil cooler yes? problem resolved?  :)
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #28 on: 16 October 2006, 06:59:15 »
WOW. HAha it looks like a real plumber went at that!

Kind of funny because i rigd my HBV like that. But thats what you have to do when people want $115 US for a plastic valve...

The not so funny part is I have sludge in tank  :(

Oil cooler failure? Very rescent, Im quite sure. Since when i did my HBV a flushing of the coolant was clean.

Im optomistic that its just the oil cooler because I have no mayo in my filler or on the stick.

Also i notice that Im not loosing water at all.. but that im loosing oil. Does this further point to oil cooler? Any way I had no idea how serious oil in coolant was and have been driving it around.. Hope my hoses are ok.

Lacking confidence, im having a friend do the replacement for me.. but as funds are tight, might be ill find a money tree some where... Damn the luck.
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Re: Mayo in header tank :(
« Reply #29 on: 16 October 2006, 08:29:26 »
Yes, yours sounds like oil cooler failure to.....oil coller kit is about 70 quid ($120) plus you need some coolant bridge seals and sealent.
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