I imagine the JB weld was only used on the jugs/water jackets, not the heads themselves. Your heads should be flycut if they are pitted or warped. Not much is usually taken off (in thousands). JB weld is then applied to the mating surface, which cannot be machined. Dave B 83 WBX Westy 63 Tiico Westy 59 SO4 ----- Original Message ----- From: "DaveC" <voicebox@DNAI.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:11 PM Subject: Re: leaky head gasket question again
> >I've had my 84 for about 18 months. It has 92k miles on it's 1.9L and last > >fall I replaced the gaskets. After what I went through getting the sleeves > >off the cylinder heads I'm sure that was the first time they had ever been > >off. I just cleaned them up and put them back on after a very tiny bit of JB > >weld on one small area. 18 years on original gaskets does not seem bad to > >me, you be the judge. It now runns perfectly. > > JB Weld in the head pits? This really works? How many others on this > list have used this technique? > > This would greatly lower the price of repair. > > Dave (on the cheap after ordering all that SA stuff...) > -- > Dave Carpenter > > Whatever you wish for me, > May you have twice as much. > > "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think > we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. > Clark |
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