Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:00:58 -0400
Reply-To: dieselwesty <dieselwesty@YAHOO.COM>
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From: dieselwesty <dieselwesty@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Dead diesel diagnosis/postmortem
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That sounds like a oil starve situation for #2. If you use the dasher
block, I think that is a 1.5l motor, but the head ports are the same. Not
sure here.
If you were not so far away, I would give you my 1.6l block with a bad head
from my 82 Westy diesel.
You should be ok if you really clean the head good with solvent and inspect
for scoring on the valve ports from possible metal shavings.
Bryan Belman Pt. Pleasant, NJ
1990 Audi 200 Turbo (Money Pit)
1982 Westy 1.9l NA (In process)
1970 Type1 Std. Beetle (This one is done)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Snow" <dieselvanagon@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:19 AM
Subject: Dead diesel diagnosis/postmortem
> Ya'll may recall that I have an '82 Diesel that was free. It made an
> atrocious skreech, skreech, skreech, skreech when the motor ran. It
sounded
> terminal. So tonight I finally pulled off the oilpan to find...
> Enough bronze shavings to cast a statue with. Then I peered up, rotating
the
> motor with a 17mm socket. The cylinder walls looked shiny and unscored,
but
> that is a very preliminary judgement. The crazy thing was this: the big
end
> bearing cap on connecting rod #2 (second from the back of the van) looked
> funny. All the other rod ends were nice and wet with oil and are smooth
and
> metallic. #2 looks like someone sandblasted it with iron oxide, and it is
> bone dry. Furthermore (those of you with tender stomachs might want to
skip
> this part) there appeared to be a little bit of thin metal, like a piece
of
> aluminum foil, stuck between the con rod end cap and its next door
neighbor
> crankshaft piece. I got out the trusty 14mm and, on further inspection
found
> that this foil is in fact steel or iron and it is literally being extruded
> from where there should be bearing. I was able to pry some of it away.
It's
> awful.
>
> I have a friend who will sell me an apparently good dasher diesel block
> (minus head and accessories for cheap, so I am not without hope. I do have
a
> few questions, however:
> 1) Did #2 get oil starved somehow? It seems odd that this would only
happen
> to one con rod. I guess engines are pretty complex systems and some
> randomness might have accumulated into a local problem...? Or is #2 a
design
> problem?
> 2) I am very poor (and even more lazy), and I wonder if there is some way
I
> might just, you know, emery cloth that particular piece and put in a new
> bearing?
> 3) If you are appalled by #2 and insist that I use the dasher engine, is
> there anything I should be aware of as I do the transplant? I will use my
> own head, and I wonder if bronze shavings made their way upstairs. That
> would be bad.
> 4) Anything else?
>
> Daniel Snow
> PhD Student
> UC Berkeley
>
> '82 Vanagon Diesel
> '78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped
> '72 Motobecane Mobylette Moped
> '01 Xootr Scooter
>
>
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