Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:48:29 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Disaster PT. 2
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Hmm.
Brendan Slevin wrote:
>> Oh yeah the other good news, in all my clean up of the enigne I found a
sticker saying VW Canada remanufactured. Hmm. . . <<
I bought an 88 GL with about 86,000 miles on it. At about 90-92,000 it burned a piston, scored the cylinder, damaged the head. Put metal all through the engine. Pulled the engine, and low and behold, there was a yellow tag on the engine case that said Remanufactured by VW Canada. That meant that some time between theoretical zero miles when new on the showroom floor, and the time the engine blew at 92,000 miles, the original engine had gone belly up, and the Canada engine had been installed. At the 92,000 mark the Canada engine went belly up. Thats two factory engines in 92,000 miles. There is no telling what the PO did to those engines, and it was a one owner vehicle until I bought it. But it sure begs the question, can anyone be that rough on the engines as to destroy them in so short a time.?? And are the Canada remans any good? I'm a soft touch on my machinery, and get more use than most between maintenance stints, but I take good care of the old girl. I put in a locally built third engine and it now has 75,000 plus miles on it and going strong. It looks like it is going to outlast the other two combined.
Needless to say, I am not particularly enthralled by the fact of the engine being remanned in Canada. Doesn't add a thing so far as I'm concerned.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Brendan Slevin wrote:
> Ok, so I was assuming the stud snapped way into the block but upon
> removing the head I can see now there is about half an inch to grab or
> weld a nut on. BUT> In removing the head the the stud next to it snapped
> with barely any force. That's right, removing it! Go figure. Well, at
> least it broke at the very end so the piece to grab is very long. I can
> manage that. But the stubby one is an real problem. I'm all hot inside
> trying to figure out what to do next. Drop the engine? It's right there
> ready to be free, but is it necessary? Seems as though I'll need to pull
> the liner out which also mean I need to disassemble the engine, right?
> Please help me figure out this mess! Thanks!
>
> Oh yeah the other good news, in all my clean up of the enigne I found a
> sticker saying VW Canada remanufactured. Hmm. . .
>
> Brendan.
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