Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:37:33 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Was: Go Westie engine....Then !.8 turbo swap
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Well, that's interesting. Especially, perhaps to Melissa and to the OP who
was asking about the Go Westie motor and alternative swaps like the swap to
the 1.8t motor. For the substantial cost of a commercial engine swap,
shop-done, you probably wouldn't want them to install a motor with some
known issues. Or at least you would want to know these known issues have
been addressed and remedied, like perhaps Go Westie must have done with
their WBX motor.
Don Hanson
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Tom Stone <tstone8359@aol.com> wrote:
> My experience with a 1.8 T as installed in my wife's 2004 Passat is that
> there was an oil sludge problem which caused a restriction of oil flow to
> the crank bearings and other critical places. ?The engine was replaced under
> warranty by VW with less than 50k miles on it. ?I always changed the oil
> regularly and used the recommended viscosity, so it wasn't the lack of
> maintenance that caused the problem. ?I recently ordered some new oil
> filters for the Passat. ?They are now larger, like a Vanagon diesel filter.
> ?I am assuming that this redesign was done, in part, to attempt to address
> the sludge problem. ?If you google "1.8T" and "sludge", you will find that I
> was not alone with my problem and that many of the engines in the junkyard
> referred to earlier most likely died of sludge-related issues rather than
> excessive chipping or timing belt failure.
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> Tom
>
> Ohio
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 9:36 pm
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Was: Go Westie engine....Then !.8 turbo swap
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> Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> writes:
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> > I asked my junkyard guy, German Auto Salvage in Boring, Oregon (yes, that
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> > the name of the town) if he had any 1.8 turbo motors last time I was
> there.
> > He said he had plenty..all blown up. No good ones. He was quite
> critical
> > of that motor..said he gets em in by the dozens..all with catastrophic
> > failure. I am not saying I know for sure that these are undependable
> > motors, but when someone is in the salvage business and he tells me to
> > 'forget it'...I'll listen.
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> I wonder how many of them had a "chipped" ECU or other mods.
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> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
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