Coolant getting into the oil on a water boxer is usually due to a broken or at least loose head stud. Remove the rockers and check there. A bad oil cooler will usually contaminate the coolant with oil as the oil is at a higher pressure there.

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2005 6:12 pm
Subject: Re: Oil contamination... with coolant

> > What is you're suggestion about that problem... when the oil is so
> > contaminated... that it's a pale brown color...
> >
> > When the oil drain screw was remove, about 1 liter of clean
> coolant came
> > out, after it became that messy sticky brown stuff, it'all over
> the internal
> > componants....
>
> Ah yes, the muddy, whipped, milk chocolate looking stuff. That's the
> famous oil and water froth. That usually comes from a crankcase being
> filled with coolant, raising the liquid level inside till it reaches
> the crank-- that's how you get the "whipped mousse" look to the oil.
> Judging by the amount of coolant (1liter) you drained from the
> crankcase, I'd suspect a fairly good internal leak. Oil cooler
> perhaps?
>
> >
> > #1 was FULL of coolant,
>
> #1? Like the #1 cylinder?
>
> > strangly, the collant color is perfect with no trace
> > of oil....
>
> I've had 2 cars come down with "whipped oil/coolant mix" in my life,
> and the oil never got into the cooling system. Usually the cooling
> system is operating at a higher pressure than the oil system in the
> places where they are in close proximity, so it stands to reason that
> you'd only see water in the oil and not vice cersa.
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon
> "Keine Bange, wir holen die Zange!"
>