[Healeys] Oil in the water cooling system

[John O'Brien]

I have also had oil in my coolant.  I checked with a Healey specialty shop
about the repair.  I don't remember the figure but it was more than I wanted
to spend.  There is a place in the block where the oil passage and water
jacket have a very thin amount of metal between them.  A little corrosion
and it starts leaking.  The good thing is that your oil pressure at 20 - 50+
lbs. is always higher than your coolant pressure at 7 lbs or so.  That means
the oil will seep into the coolant, but the coolant won't push it's way into
the oil.  The shop told me the oil, in small amounts doesn't really hurt
anything.  I open the radiator and dip the end of rolled up paper towels
into it to swab out some of the oil periodically.  About once a year I drain
the coolant, refill it a time or two with water and run it to rinse it out.
I have even put some Dawn Dish soap in the water and run it to emulsify the
oil into the water to get more of it out.  After a good rinse run, I drain
and refill with my coolant mix.  My car always runs in the right temp range
(per the thermostat I have installed).  Until it gets much worse, I will
keep doing what I'm doing.  I've never found signs of water in my oil.  
The actual repair requires having the machine shop bore the oil passage and
then they sleeve it.

My 2 cents worth
John O'Brien
'61 bugeye
'65 BJ8

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From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Dirk Maier
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:26 PM
To: 'Oudesluys'; 'Healey'
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Oil in the water cooling system

Sorry,
of course it was 105 Nm.

Dirk
Siegburg
Germany

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Im Auftrag von Oudesluys
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. Dezember 2010 19:02
An: Healey
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net; Dirk Maier
Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Oil in the water cooling system

Yes I missed that.
10,5Nm is very little and certainly wrong. It should probably read
10,5Kgm which is roughly 105Nm.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL

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