Ye olde Head Gasket (8v)

[area53 at validpath.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

I'd bet money it's the stock oil cooler. The key is the no change in 
driveability. If you bust your HG, you'll definitely notice a drop in 
performance. Happened on my Cali edition when I had it...(RIP)...

HTH, JT

Robert Piwonka wrote:

> I have a similar problem.  Oil in the coolant but mines a 16v.  I did 
> a compress check and it was good 150 on all cylinders( about 3 cranks)
> Has anyone had the stock oil cooler start leaking?
>
>> '87 Scirocco 8v; 167K; head gasket w/ 23K
>>
>> Would like to get some thoughts on my suspicions.
>>
>> Been noticing a darkening of my coolant over the past
>> few months.  Kind of the thing at first you disregard
>> as perhaps it is just old, then start to look and say,
>> "hey, that ain't right".  Poured some out and yup,
>> nice gold-green-brown color and smells and is oily. Soooo...
>>
>> Noticed too that the engine has run a bit warmer and
>> the coolant reservoir is lately getting
>> overpressurized (oil-coolant mixture will appear
>> around base of cap threads).
>>
>> Those are the only symptoms.  No real drivability
>> issues whatsoever.  This leads me to think, crap, the
>> head might be warped.  Other possibility is the
>> standard oil cooler (new gasket and cleaned out also
>> about 23K ago).  I see no external leakage anywhere.
>>
>> So - I yanked the head.  Given that I am in an
>> apartment and winter is approaching (although it has
>> been a very warm fall here in Virginia), I wanted to
>> get the work done JUST IN CASE.  Probably should have
>> done a compression test first.  But this is a beater
>> and well, so what. 
>> Going to take the head in for checkage and see how it
>> goes.  I really wanted to just get another year's
>> worth of drive out of this as much of it has been
>> mechanically rebuilt.  Turn around time for the head,
>> should it indeed be warped, will hopefully give me
>> time to get it back in and adjusted/running before the
>> cold fall rains (cue Guns & Butter). 
>> I am goint to post pics of the headgasket tomorrow as
>> I don't see any damage to it, but would like people's
>> observations.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Scirocco-l mailing list
> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>
>


-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005