Coolant-oil swapping

[Ameer Antar]

If the coolant seems fine...that shouldn't be strange. There's prolly no 
leak at all. Rough idle or driving is rarely directly caused by a leaky 
gasket, etc. You have a whole lot of other possible problems. A good place 
to start is in the fuel or ignition system. Compression test will verify 
whether or not you have a coolant-oil leak. If compression is within spec 
on all cylinders, your engine is fine. Seriously it's pretty rare for leaks 
to occur on an Audi engine, unless you know something bad happened, like 
losing a coolant hose and frying the head. There are so many possible fuel 
issues, you really should start there...vac. leaks, dirty filters, stuck 
valves, bad sensors, old injectors, etc, etc. good luck, but don't waste 
time pulling the head if you already know you have good compression.

-ameer


At 11:41 AM 2/5/2001 , you wrote:
>     This is not what I want to hear about 4 cylinder coolant/oil swapping.
>My car is now misbehaving more.  After a 45 minute highway journey there was
>still white smoke coming from the exhaust.  Then I found bubbles on the
>dipstick after that drive.  She isn't idling worse or better than before,
>always the same cruddy idle characteristics associated with the 80 4 cyl.  I
>am not seeing a considerable coolant loss though, a bit odd in my book.
>Before it seemingly went down rather quickly, but even after some odd 5-600
>miles since last top up it's stayed quite the same.  Though I am planning to
>yank the head soon and check everything out.  I am praying it's the gasket,
>but with my luck it'll be the head and block, guess it'll be time to buy a
>quattro then, or maybe a turbo transplant to give all of you something to
>talk about:-)
>
>Wish me luck!
>
>Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 80
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