Thread: 240 General: - Oil in coolant; head gasket?
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Old Nov 7th, 2019, 10:42   #7
Stephen Edwin
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Originally Posted by Clan View Post
yes ! drain the auto fluid and replace ASAP . then go for a run for an hour , preferably up hills don't consider fuel consumption , you need to get the gearbox temperature over 100 C to boil off any remaining water in the gearbox . do this a few times over a period of a week until the gearbox oil is bright red again .

Clan. I don't have an auto currently. But as a matter of interest and maybe even for the future: I remember approximately a suggestion of changing the cooling arrangement. Have the engine radiator serve only the engine and a separate cooler for the auto box. What think ye and how would that be done?

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