Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:35:39 -0800
Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Frozen Engine
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A couple of months ago I posted to the list about a Vanagon I have with a frozen engine.
I poured Diesel several weeks ago into each cylinder and today I attached a towbar and with a friend drove around the neighborhood trying to break the cylindrs free. All that was accomplished is leaving rubber tire marks .
This engine is really locked up, and I don't understand it.
it ran fine when I got it in 2006, but then 3 days later it would not start For the next year and a half, whenever I had the time, I would try to get it running, but nothing. It would just crank.
So last summer, I replaced the CIS system( this is a conversion in a '82 Diesel Vanagon with a 82 Scirocco engine.
Not having the equipment or know-how to troubleshoot CIS, I removed that system and installed one that ran my Westfalia for 8 years, Digifant 2 (88-92 Golf -Jetta)
When I get that finished, then it would'nt crank. When I got a chance to work on it again later last fall, I pulled the starter and tested it- it did'nt work. Great-I had a good starter and I put it in. It still would'nt crank.
Finally I put a breaker bar and socket on the crankshaft pulley, and even with a cheater pipe I could not break the engine free.
So, now what?
My friend thinks that maybe it had a head gasket leak that dumped coolant into one or more cylinders, and that it rusted up pretty good.
That sounds logical.
I freed a bug motor that was froze with a breaker bar and WD-40. That froze because water was entering thru the rear deck lid vents (the rain tray had been removed) and wetting the engine directly, seeping water into the the cylinders via the spark plugs.
So before I remove the head , any last ideas? Would it be better to try to pry with a large screwdriver thru the timing hole(Diesel bellhousing) ?
Finally, if after I remove the head I see no evidence of a head gasket leak, can I safely tap on the cylinders with a wooden mallet, dead blow, etc? Maybe tha will break it free?
never had this happen before on a Vanagon.
Thanks
Robert
1982 Westfalia
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