Are you saying "knocking" as in "pinging" (pre-ignition) or "knocking" as in "mechanical sound" (e.g., rod knock.)? --------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young '81 Vanagon Lafayette, CA 94549 '82 Westfalia --------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "raul lince" <eeore37@HOTMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:58 PM Subject: Knocking engine after head replacement!!
> Lots of money and time on this. Put remann heads on our 89 and now at warm > up whem motor is getting up to tempature it begins knocking. never did it > before so im stumped. Mann filter, 20w 50 synthetic oil, AFC 1000, the > works. Really a bummer. How can one tell if its a fuel mixture problem or > rod bearings? did the spark plug wire removal and it went away but could it > still be a fuel issue?( i hope ) its in number one cylinder, could it be > better compression from new heads? there was a manufacturers acceptable > crack. But what do you think? thinking about 2.1 liter from tiico (they > offer one). thanx > > Raul > 89 wolfie gl > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add MSN 8 Internet Software to your existing Internet access and enjoy > patented spam protection and more. Sign up now! > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/byoa |
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