Oil & Water

Just checked the dipstick, now I know where the water has been going from the radiator.

The engine is full up with it

The garage recon about £800 for a new head gasket, then another £60 odd to get a bloke to pick it up

 

ouch!

 

Gotta walk to the next village after lunch, angry cat, no cat food left.

 

any tuna?

 

Gutted For Ya!!!

Soon as i seen the thred oil and water i thought i rember that from school its Called Chromatography But Not the Way you want to see it

 

Turns its nose up at that.

 

Cheers Nick, you just spelt a huge word right

 

And Was that Right From Memory?? Creating a Rainbow effect

 

Hang on a minute. Cool your boots.

Water in oil, if its the head gasket they'd have mixed under pressure and with heat, so you'd have a horrible emulsion substance there. Engine would overheat quickly too.

Could still be the head gasket, but before forking out better part of a grand, I'd be wondering if the engine still runs ok. Is the coolant full of either oil or horrid creamy coloured emulsion?

What car is it Zig? Some engines have a separate oil cooler that is liquid cooled (mostly turbo diesels I think) and sometimes the oil cooler becomes porous so water and oil mix there, under much lower heat and pressure, so you get the symptoms you describe.

Worth a check before condemning the head gasket, because oil coolers are much cheaper to sort.

 

More of a side effect, chromatography involves splitting up of mixed substances by one substance travelling further through a medium (like filter paper or gelatine) than the other one.

So with oil and water you would get that effect

 

I trust my mechanic to do the right thing, he often doesn't do things i've put the car in for, just says that would have cost too much.

Its a Freelander, petrol.

Coolant just emptys out in about half an hour, no oil in that.

The oil/water mix is quite light, straw coloured but does come the full length of the dipstick, ie its about a foot deep.

The engine ran yesterday, with no overheating, but I did notice it juddering strangely when I came to a halt.

 

Ta FC

Think its the 1.8. It didn't overheat at all so i'm keeping them crossed. Should hear from the garage tomorrow, then i've got the problem of how to collect it when its done. Its about 10 miles away and there are no busses here.