Date:         Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:28:29 -0500
Reply-To:     EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
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From:         EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: gutless AND unreliable...(C'mon Volkswagen!!)
Comments: To: Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <CAEOIPKOOCKNBBDDDMBPAEHOCOAA.jeff@tssgi.com>
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Fixing thing right the frist time:   Very Very hard to do, some times.
I have a set of heads that have to go back in place soon. The valves
guides have .023" of slop in them.  The spec. in Bentley is .047"
Would you replace them?  This engine is a used rebuild. Maybe 40,000
miles. Rusty as ever. Inside looks clean. I don't have $2000 for a
rebuilt engine. I can do an engine swap for about $1000 total but
at that cost I am making everything but the adapter, and that takes
time I don't have.  If I did buy a rebuilt engine, it may be just
like the one I'm nursing along: a GEX piece of junk.  Now it
I have the valves done, what are the chances they will be done right,
usung good quality parts?

         Having said all this, taking it all in consider,
         what would you do with the valve guides?



            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          86-SS Syncro
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
                                   92-Jetta GWC
            www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jeffrey Schwaia wrote:

> A few weeks ago, someone on this list got it right (IMHO)...  If you fix it
> right the first time, you wont have all the recurring problems that people
> tend to complain about.
>
> I've had VWs all my life, driven them from Canada to Mexico and everywhere
> in between, other then flats, belts and the occasional driver error (abuse),
> I've never had problems.
>
> Fix it right, fix it once.
>
> Just my personal experience.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>