jharl

I recently did a timing belt thermostat water pump service. Change the coolant and and so on. Car was running great and still is as a matter of fact but now I find that my oil is disappearing pretty much all of it after like $500 to A Thousand Miles and the coolant is brown. I have a feeling that I need a head gasket. Once I have the headgasket in hand. how long should it take me to tear the car down reassemble and get running again can I do it in the weekend?

Any help on this information would be very helpful. Car running smoothly just sucking on my land making brown Cooling it's a brown cooling Factory so if you need some Bronco I can come on down I got jugs and jugs of it. Currently I'm doing a flush as we speak so I can fill the crankcase with more oil and drive to work tomorrow and suck it all out and drain it tomorrow night this is going to be expensive fast. Best regards

Jack fl

dreadlocks

Get your self a compression tester, quickest way to confirm what you already suspect.

David.Norton

The 1.8T has an oil cooler, and IIRC it is a problem area. I would check that first as it is much easier and cheaper.

jharl

It definitely was the oil cooler this is a 2.8 12v 1997 A4. We bought the car it had 80,000 on it. Now it has 97 good deal I thought. Thanks for your help. oh FYI cleaning out the oil is a bastard job.