[Vwdiesel] Regarding Oil leaking into water

[James Hansen]

Another good one is liquid tide laundry soap.
I coated a tractor with oil a few days ago... well, a burst hydraulic 
line did it for me. It was completely coated and dripping with oil, from 
rad to seat, to hitch.  Too dangerous to use that way, so I brushed it 
with  tide liquid laundry soap and cold water and it is really really 
clean now, and not oily.
I wouldn't be afraid to use this to clean the cooling system either.. 
there were almost no suds and stuff.

Come to think of it, the tractor didn't shrink either... oh yeah, cold 
water.
-James

David Cook wrote:
> No, sorry.  It is a dish soap.  Dish soap is pretty
> darn good at getting grease off your hands when you
> don't have "proper" hand cleaner around.  It is
> designed to cut grease and I guess it doesn't much
> care what kind of grease it is.
> 
> I guess it really doesn't matter a whole lot what
> brand you use, and I would be careful about how much
> you put in to start with, I don't remember what kind
> of sudsing effect it would have in the cooling system
> according to the guy who did it.  I'd try lower
> concentrations and move up if they didn't work.
> 
> David
> 
> --- Sherwin Goff <sherwingoff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> David, thank you very much for the info
>>   Is "Dawn" a laundry detergent?
>>    
>>   Sherwin
>>    
>>   David vwdieselbunnyeasel1 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> Sherwin-
>>
>> I am familiar with the cooler you speak of.  In
>>
>> several years of reading several VW forums, I have
>>
>> only ever heard of one failing and leaking oil into
>>
>> the coolant.
>>
>> However, with VW diesels, it isn't all that uncommon
>>
>> to have a head gasket fail, and these are common
>>
>> symptoms
>>
>> of a failing head gasket.  I am sorry to break it to
>>
>> you...
>>
>> Whichever thing it happens to be, the only thing to
>> do
>>
>> is replace the part, either the cooler or the
>> gasket.
>>
>> I suppose you could pull the cooler off and take it
>> to
>>
>> a radiator shop to have it pressure tested.  If it
>>
>> leaks, then you are lucky and all you have to do is
>>
>> replace it and clean out the cooling system.  (The
>> guy
>>
>> dealing with the one instance of this failure I've
>>
>> seen used some Dawn to flush the system several
>> times then gave it a good rinsing.)
>>
>> However, I'd give you 95% headgasket, and 5% oil
>> cooler.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> David
>>    
>>   
>>
> 
> 
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