coolant getting into oil -is there only one way ?

[dooroy]

A friend in the trade has been asked about a 1.8 Freelander - there is quite an amount of coolant getting into the oil .

There are very few Freelanders around so he hasn't had much dealings with them .

He is wondering if there is any other way for coolant to get into the oil other than a headgasket problem .

The Freelander has never overheated and the system is not pressurising - but when he drained the oil there was quite an amount of coolant in it.

[Jon White]

Headgasket. They usually start this way, and only overheat once the coolant has dropped too low (cos lets face it nobody ever checks their coolant regularly).

Headgasket on these will not tend to pressurise the cooling system and will not show up a failed on a sniffer test cos they tend to go between the oil and water and not into the cylinders.

Jon

[Deface]

There is only three ways really the coolant would get into the oil: 1.Head gasket 2. cracked head 3. Someone physically pouring water in the oil.So i would say 100% Headgasket, i work at an ex-rover garage and still to this day we regulary get MGs, rovers and freelanders come in with the head gasket gone. The only place the oil and coolant come anywhere near eack other is going through the head gasket.

To be honest its not hard to do yourself infact there is a thread on here showing you step by step on how to do it.Its only a nightmare when you start having to reseal piston liners and if the head has been warped badly or has the dreaded 'fire rings'.

HTH

ethan

[dooroy]

Thanks for replies - will pass on the info .