TR6 '72 TR6: Oil in Coolant

[poolboy]

Could be like a lot of things, the new stuff could be inferior.
Last October at the TRials up in St Louis, there were about 80 TR6's...I saw 2 with fresh looking green top radiator hoses split.
There has been a lot of talk before and after about those unreinforced green hoses. The cloth impregnated top layer doesn't really count as reinforcement.
Here's a link to some of the topics.
https://forums.6-pack.org/search?q=green+hose&searchJSON={"keywords":"green+hose"}

 

[Martin Secrest]

Oh, OK cool, I'll keep an eye. I did however purchase this set from TRF, who went the extra mile to have them made especially for them. Generally I trust TRF to get it right.

 

[Martin Secrest]

If anyone's interested, here's TRF's story about how ultimately they sourced their green hoses for TR6:

http://trf.zeni.net/webcatalog/specials7.17/15.php

 

[poolboy]

Nice story, Martin and I hope your's "last a long time"...I know for sure that one of the blown hoses at the TRials was from TRF...
"Forewarned is Forearmed"
Take a look at yours...if it's not reinforced such as this, although they may be pretty, they aren't structurally sound.

 

[Martin Secrest]

Good photo, thanks. Mine don't look like that, with the interior webbing .. but neither do the 25 year-old hoses I just took off the car. Hmm. But I will hang onto them.

 

[glemon]

I am bringing this page three topic back up just because it helped me get the gumption to look into my oil in the coolant issue. I had what looked like traces of oil floating at the top of my radiator too. I thought of a lot of hypotheses, most of them with expensive conclusions. So I kind of just ignored it and occasionally monitored it hoping it would go away.

But after reading this topic I decided it was time to drain and flush. One long drive later still looks good.

I will add there was one less expensive possibility. When I buy oil I always prefer to get the quarts, not the five quart container. Mostly because it is easier to keep track of how much oil you put in, and if you have a 4 quart change you have one quart bottle left, not a 4/5 empty 5 quart jug. Now we get to the meat of it. I did get one of those 5 at. containers a few years back, it was blue, same color as the Peak Antifreeze I usually buy, so I had a quart of oil sitting in a container that at a quick glance looked an antifreeze container, I know I absentmindedly started pouring in a car once. Thought it was a different car. Might have been the TR.