Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:44:17 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: How to do a head reseal on a diesel vanagon?
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I'm being facetious, but you should automatically retire the head on a
diesel vanagon with 1.6NA at 160K miles. I'll be surprised if the head
itself is decent or useable on this job, but we'll see - maybe it's fine.
In any case, do a nice clean job on a head gasket job, and hope for the
best...................or ...............
I don't know the exact situation of your friend or that relationship or any
of that of course - but I have seen cases where the customer goes for the
very cheap repair, and then is upset when it doesn't work out. Of all cars
out there in the world, overall ...a stock diesel vanagon with 1.6NA is WAY
up the scale of a poorly made, over-stressed engine, often with a poor or
cheap owner as well......be careful is all I want to say, very careful.
The way I'd approach the job, I'd sell it as a head removal and inspection
job first, and then see how things look and consider options at that point.
Agreeing to just slap in a new head gasket and hope for the best ......all I
can say is that 'some people' , no matter how many times you tell them it's
an emergency risky temporary repair, they get their hopes up that it'll be
fine for 5 more years, and they're very upset AT THE CAR TECHNICAIN WHO DID
THE WORK when it doesn't work out. ( btdt ) I doubt I would enter into
this job professionally unless there was good money available to deal with
whatever comes up. Red flags all over the place here, so be very careful.
scott
www.turbovans.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Dennis Haynes
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 7:54 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: How to do a head reseal on a diesel vanagon?
You should have the head inspected-tested for cracks. Very common on the
Diesels.
Dennis
>From: Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: How to do a head reseal on a diesel vanagon?
>Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:25:08 -0700
>
>I have to do a cylinder head gasket job on a friends 82 diesel westy. Does
>anyone have a better writeup than the bentley, especially, do i need these
>specific tools for the drive belt?
>The engine is currently bubbling out coolant between head and block....
>argh. I know that on an engine with already 165k on it, this might be a
>temporary fix, but I am unsure of the costs and time involved in a
>1.9conversion, so I guess its gonna be just fixing it for now.
>
>Any advice is greatly appreciated!
>
>thanks a lot
>flo
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