----- Original Message ----- From: "Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:35 PM Subject: Diesel head issue... opinions?
> He said "what's that for?" pointing to the spacer. > > I told him it came off the old head, so I put it back on the rebuilt > head. > > He said "Don't. There's your problem." > > So, I figure that if this is true, I can leave out the spacers and have > at least five threads on the "bad hole" and seven on the other holes, > given that the bolts seem to be two threads in (judging from the two I > pulled up) right now, with the spacers installed. > > Is this a recipe for disaster, or proper diesel repair? All I know is I left the spacers off when I put mine back on, and it went fine. Thankfully I had a friend who had already done a couple of these to help, and since he'd never seen the spacers on any of them before he just left them out. I think the newer bolt design, as your parts guy indicated, doesn't need the spacers. With the spacers on I bet you weren't grabbing enough threads. |
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