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Old 04-24-2014, 01:10 PM   #23
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Question: Looked inside the coolant reservoir and saw drops of oil floating on the remaining coolant. This is in response to your coolant in the oil verses oil in the coolant comment. I don't understand how failure of the coolant/oil heat exchanger would allow coolant to get into exhaust system. What is the connection?
If you are sure there is coolant in the exhaust, meaning there's coolant in the cylinders when you took out the plugs, then I would say its probably not the heat exchanger. Exchanger failure usually dumps lots of oil in the coolant and little or no coolant in the oil because the oil pressure is much higher than the coolant pressure.
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