Ye olde Head Gasket (8v)

[gooddane66 at yahoo.com (Phil Boeye)]

Yeah, I am starting to think oil cooler, too.

Today I am going to drain the oil and yank the cooler.
 The only way I can think of to check it is fill the
coolant area with some old coolant and see if it will
leak out of the oil flow area.

Any other suggestions on testing it?

Either way, now that the head is out I think I'll have
it and the oil cooler taken it for a cleaning.  The
sludge from this whole endeavor has left everything
nasty.

Which leads to a second post --



--- Jeff Toomasson <area53@validpath.com> wrote:

> I'd bet money it's the stock oil cooler. The key is
> the no change in 
> driveability. If you bust your HG, you'll definitely
> notice a drop in 
> performance. Happened on my Cali edition when I had
> it...(RIP)...
> 
> HTH, JT
> 
> Robert Piwonka wrote:
> 
> > I have a similar problem.  Oil in the coolant but
> mines a 16v.  I did 
> > a compress check and it was good 150 on all
> cylinders( about 3 cranks)
> > Has anyone had the stock oil cooler start leaking?
> >
> >> '87 Scirocco 8v; 167K; head gasket w/ 23K
> >>
> >> Would like to get some thoughts on my suspicions.
> >>
> >> Been noticing a darkening of my coolant over the
> past
> >> few months.  Kind of the thing at first you
> disregard
> >> as perhaps it is just old, then start to look and
> say,
> >> "hey, that ain't right".  Poured some out and
> yup,
> >> nice gold-green-brown color and smells and is
> oily. Soooo...
> >>
> >> Noticed too that the engine has run a bit warmer
> and
> >> the coolant reservoir is lately getting
> >> overpressurized (oil-coolant mixture will appear
> >> around base of cap threads).
> >>
> >> Those are the only symptoms.  No real drivability
> >> issues whatsoever.  This leads me to think, crap,
> the
> >> head might be warped.  Other possibility is the
> >> standard oil cooler (new gasket and cleaned out
> also
> >> about 23K ago).  I see no external leakage
> anywhere.
> >>
> >> So - I yanked the head.  Given that I am in an
> >> apartment and winter is approaching (although it
> has
> >> been a very warm fall here in Virginia), I wanted
> to
> >> get the work done JUST IN CASE.  Probably should
> have
> >> done a compression test first.  But this is a
> beater
> >> and well, so what. 
> >> Going to take the head in for checkage and see
> how it
> >> goes.  I really wanted to just get another year's
> >> worth of drive out of this as much of it has been
> >> mechanically rebuilt.  Turn around time for the
> head,
> >> should it indeed be warped, will hopefully give
> me
> >> time to get it back in and adjusted/running
> before the
> >> cold fall rains (cue Guns & Butter). 
> >> I am goint to post pics of the headgasket
> tomorrow as
> >> I don't see any damage to it, but would like
> people's
> >> observations.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >
> >
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