Head Gasket or?

[wynnefraser]

First let me start with a little back story.

Last week, while on my way to Ballarat a noise came from the vehicle at around 90km/h. Once I attempted to take it back upto 110km/h there was simply no power and noise from the turbo.

Result was the turbo was replaced and intercooled had to be cleaned. Got it back on Friday and it seemed to be fine.

Today I went for a drive to Ringwood, all seemed fine but after getting home received a phone call that I had been leaving oil where I had been out there. Next to zero oil in the engine and oil coming out under pressure from the dome contained under the bonnet, almost straight in from the steering wheel where I'm sure water should be. It wasnt coming out by itself, only once I opened it. The container which is sort of yellow in colour and has a fill line marked on the outside. I've opened it in the past and this has never happened. RACV thought that the gasket has gone.

This is in a TD5 defender. Does anyone have any experience of this, and is it going to cost me more? Already spent enough in the last week...

[Blknight.aus]

sounds like its the centrifugal filter cover not put on correctly to me... Its the only dome shaped part thats ringing bells to me.

should cost you all of about $50 to have it helicoiled if the threads have stripped (the complete helicoil kit is about $40 for DIY and it'd only take a mechanic about 20 minutes to do the job and a single helicoil to suit is about $1)

[wynnefraser]

Just edited it to make it a bit more understandable.

Today I went for a drive to Ringwood, all seemed fine but after getting home received a phone call that I had been leaving oil where I had been out there. Next to zero oil in the engine and oil coming out under pressure from the dome contained under the bonnet, almost straight in from the steering wheel where I'm sure water should be. It wasnt coming out by itself, only once I opened it. The container which is sort of yellow in colour and has a fill line marked on the outside. I've opened it in the past and this has never happened. RACV thought that the gasket has gone.

[Blknight.aus]

you might be lucky and its just the oil cooler let go.

[slug_burner]

I suspect that your container on the drivers side with the fill line is the radiator overflow. Are you saying that you have oil coming out of the radiator overflow?

Don't know about the Td5 but the 300 Tdi had an oil cooler in the radiator, if that is leaking into the cooling system then you could end up with oil in the overflow bottle, I suspect that it would be pretty well emulsified if that was the case.

Photo might help.

[wynnefraser]

Radiator overflow sounds familiar. Once the lid it undone a little, a murky dark grey oil comes out of the container. But if the car is just sitting, then a pile of oil is on the ground. Most likely why the oil is virtually empty. But how this all happened, not sure.