You obviously have messed up the valve adjustment, and the valves are hanging opened. This is easy to do if you removed the push rods. The lifters have a seat that these get stuck on. Sorecheck the valve adjustment. Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 86-SS Syncro Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler 92-Jetta GWC www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, gary hradek wrote: > I have been observing a coolant loss for several > years. > small but on the increase. I had removed the pushrod > tube cover to determine that it always leaked after > shutdown on short runs left head in the front. Think > that perhaps I could just tighten the head a bit to > solve the problem I checked the compression before the > attempt. left front 120, left rear 125 and the right > side about the same. I remove the cover to the > headbolts and check the clearance on the valves. Two > turns beyond flush. Piece of cake. Tighened all > but the two headbolts next to the injectors as those > bolts were so much work to get to. New compression > is 0 left front 0 left rear so what happened? > Speculation please as I will be removing the left side > soon. Also can you explain why the right side plugs > are burning rich in this condition. It is the > science of the vanagons. > God bless the lives of those who are no longer with > us because the tradegedy of the Columbia. A God of > all believers and if you do not believe in god simply > our blessing. gary > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > |
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