Bloody type 4's !!!!

[chenzi white]

I have a 2.5 litre type 4 petrol transporter with oil in coolant resevoir.
Problem appears to be heat exchanger ? Temp gauge was normal but warning light came on. I shut down engine immediately. What is the best way to remove the sludge from cooling system ?
There is no coolant on dipstick but very little oil.
Am i on the right track ?

[Umai Naa!!]

You might be on the right track.

Go to your VW dealer and buy a bottle of cooling system cleaner. I think it's a 4L bottle, and the stuff looks a lot like pink coolant. It's the same stuff they use when Transporter and Touareg engines have the same problem.

Pour half the bottle into the system, with the rest water, and get it up to operating temperature and let it run for a while. Drain it, and repeat the process.

You may need to replace the expansion bottle, as the oil can contaminate the level sensor, meaning the low coolant light wont go out, no matter how full or clean the bottle is.

[chenzi white]

Thanks, My mechanic came over this morning and we bypassed oil cooler so we could flush it out properly. It started straight away, and idle fine, until ..........? Well, the rest of the story is not good. It appears we have a cracked head ? we did first flush and it didnt want to restart so we let it cool a bit more and it eventually did but we have 2 dead cylinders...
So if anyone has a spare engine, contact me.

[Sunny43.5]

Hey Chenzi I might be your saviour I have a complete 2.5 petrol engine sitting under a tarp at the side of our place gearbox and all , now I bought the whole van with the view to swapping the engine into my sons T4 now it did not come with the ecu etc so after many failed attempts at buy the ecu and instrument binnacle etc [his old donk was a diesel] I gave up and just dumped the body . ended up buying another running T4 and did the swap , so I do not know what condition its in but it is complete . Let me know ph 0414312624