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[mantahatch]

Hi all, following on from my previous thread on my oil cooler leaking. I got home from work this evening and started stripping off oil filter crank sensor and lower oil pipe connections. then started to drain the coolant system from the rad drain tap, and normal coolant with just a couple of spots of oil, and the heater was working perfectly normally on the drive home.
The header tank and its 3 pipes though are very immulsified.

Is it normal for 99% of the emulsion to end up in the header tank ? I ask as I was really hopefull that flushing the system will be easier if I remove the pipes from the car and clean them before refilling the system.

Knowing my luck over the last few months I have probably got a blown headgasket or cracked head or block 

Should add no water in oil and engine running sweetly.

[MutantCav]

Classic result of an oil cooler failure is the oil being dumped into the water system...often looks like someone pooed in the header tank

[V6 CDX-er]

My header tank 'seemed' to have taken the worst of it.