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Old 03-26-2019, 08:51 PM
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Tonight I changed the oil filter adapter gasket. Had to remove oil cooler first. Everything else checked out. Did a combustion gas check on radiator. Was good. Just oil in the coolant.
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Old 03-27-2019, 06:32 AM
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That is more like a heat exchanger, it cools the oil to the coolant temp.
Inside, it's broken, allowing oil to pass into the coolant.
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Old 03-27-2019, 08:49 PM
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Broken ? Like how ? Cracked ? Or internal ? I got the assumption that the adapter to block gasket goes bad, and it looked bad, that the oil pressure pushes oil into the coolant ?
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Old 03-28-2019, 06:39 AM
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If it's not the gasket, then it's internal.

The coolant passes through the cooler, and the oil passes through along side
the coolant passages. IF a passage gets a hole in it, oil and coolant will
mix.
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thank you
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