Questions tagged [oil-cooler]
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Is it possible to confirm that my oil cooler is leaking (without removing it)?
Eeek, I see oil in the coolant reservoir of my W12 Touareg.
As far as I can tell, engine temps were stable and normal prior to this sudden occurrence. Based on this, my top suspect is not the head gasket, but the oil-cooler, which is a coolant/oil…
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Engine oil in Coolant Tank and Coolant overflows
I have not drove my chevrolet spark (Beat in India) 2012 around a month, I started my car and it was fine. After approximately 30 kms, there was some mild sound from bonnet. So, I opened the coolant tank and I noticed it is blackish. The engine oil…
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Blown head gasket? Oil cooler? Something worse?
Recently I came to noitice that my car lost almost everything of the coolant from it's expansion tank (not all the coolant from the system, just the tank) in a short period of time.
The expansion-tank showed a level of just below minimum, while…
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Cause of engine oil and coolant mixing in head tank of Vauxhall Zafira
I have a Vauxhall Zafira elite (2008) which has overheated and I noticed oil in the coolant in the head tank. Would a malfunctioning oil cooler cause oil and water to mix in the engine?
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Oil Leaking in Back of Engine: Fresh oil under the oil filter cooler
I happened to noticed fresh oil on the backside of my engine ( 98 Mazda 626 GF 2L ), right under the oil filter cooler recently, right after starting up the vehicle after not driving it for a few weeks:
Looking around, I saw what looks like oil…
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What's the best way to support/position an oil cooler?
I'm installing an oil cooler on to a MK1 MX-5, that is used for Trackdays and weekly road use. I'm planning to install it where the AC condenser used to live, using two horizontal aluminium square tubes where the oil cooler will be bolted on.
Do I…
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2012 Dodge Caravan! Oil mixed in cooling system due to oil cooler failure! Replaced it! Now it smokes bad! Will Bars leak work with oil in the coolan
I had an oil cooler go out on my 2012 Dodge Grand caravan with a 3.6 V6 in it! It lost coolant immediately and the engine ran hot. Plus it mixed oil into the coolant system! I have purged the system the best I can! It smokes really bad now from over…
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Oil in expansion Bottle
Hi I live in Egypt and have a Daewoo Speranza M11 recently there was oil in the expansion bottle and the temperature light came on...the car did not overheat. The oil cooler was diagnosed and replaced ..we flushed it many times to clear the residual…
