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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:37 PM
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I was just checking my rad today by looking at the reservoir and opening my rad cap. I found little oil and grease from it from misconnection of the oil return line. How do I clean up the remainder oil. It's not a lot but i see little grease dots around the inside of rad. Is there anything that can flush it out? I just don't want grease in the motor
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 04:18 PM
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blown headgasket
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 04:23 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by batallic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">blown headgasket</TD></TR></TABLE>

yep
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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 04:23 PM
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I first started seeing oil in my coolant, then started seeing coolant in my oil, then my headgasket finally blew. Blew 3 times. The 3rd time I finally swapped engines. Here's my old engine

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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 04:33 PM
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How did you miss-connect the the oil return line. It goes from the turbo to the oil pan???

Don't worry about the small amount of oil in the anti-freeze. You can flush the cooling system if you really want to.

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Old Aug 21, 2008 | 09:48 PM
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I think you guys misunderstood or didn't read the whole thing.

There's no problem with the motor now, just that I want to clean up the residue in the rad.

Anyway 1992Si I brought this motor from some guy and I got him to do the install for me as well (very bad idea) and he misconnected some hoses. Got it fixed right when i got home.
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