Date:         Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:54:44 EST
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From:         Ken Hunter <EVEHART33@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Diesel:Big Trouble
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Saw this message from the VWFANS list this morning. Can anybody on our list
advise?
From:   backintime@triton.net (LAWS HOME)
Sender: owner-diesel@vwfans.com
Reply-to:   backintime@triton.net (LAWS HOME)
To: diesel@audifans.com

Hey all! I was replacing my injectors yesterday and I think now I have major
trouble. I got 3 of the injectors replaced with no problem in about 20
minutes. When I took out #3 injector I couldn't get the heat shield out. I
tried everything, I had a punch and tapped about 300 times lightly around
the outside edge of the shield , I scraped with a dental pic around the
outside of it , I stuck a punch into the hole and tried to pry it a little
bit, which made the hole bigger so I then threaded a 3/8 X3'' BOLT  partway
into the hole and tried to pull it out with a pair of vice grips, and in
between all of the above mentioned I applied carb cleaner and used my
brazing torch to add a little heat,( not an acetylene, just bottled mapp
gas) . Somewhere towards the end I reached in with a surgical towel clamp
that I have modified for removing heatshields :~)  and the center of the
heat shield fell into the cylinder.  Now I don't hardly have anything left
to "get under " to pull it out. I think I can get my mag. pickup tool into
there and get the pieces out, after I figure out how to get the rest of the
heat shield out of the head...any suggestions? I drive this rabbit every
day, about 120 miles , so I really need to get it going again ASAP . Feel
free to P-mail me as often times I don't get this digest version until 8-10
p.m.  P.S. I'm even willing to try some snake oil to loosen this enough to
get it out.  I put some of my best gun cleaner on it tonight ( used for
cleaning skeet guns w/ lots of buildup) hoping by a.m. it will do something!
I remember a post about this within the last 6 months but couldn't find it
in the archives.  Tom