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Had oil leaking into the coolant, changed head gasket, still same problem

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Job was not done properly, Allso there could be a internal crack in the engine block,

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Stan P.

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SOURCE: antifreze leak

Clean the area really good with some type of parts cleaner and let it dry. The VW's have a plastic 4 hose connection at the back of the head that has an "O" ring in it to seal it to the head. That may be leaking or the head gasket could be bad. First thing to do is cleaning the area and see where it is coming from. One repair is cheap, the head gasket is not!!

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Colin Stickland

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  • Posted on May 02, 2010

SOURCE: oil in coolant.had head gasket done.but the

either you havent flushed the cooling system out properly ,or the oil cooler has packed up ,their is a oil cooler radiator of sorts that the oil filter screws onto ,these often leak ,just remove the water pipes and join them together with a small piece of copper pipe ,then if you see oil coming out of the water pipes fit a new cooler

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