Hey all, Karma caught up with me. After 14 years of scoring used motors and swapping them out, I now have several needing major work. Had to do the dreaded head "gaskets" today as the right one blew out after suddenly running rough as could be. Had to be done. Yank the motor (you're thinking, "Oh, here it comes "), nope, went fine for a floor jack job. Start pulling the exhaust (you're thinking, "Oh, here it comes, broken exhaust studs"), nope, aside from wrenches not fitting, not one on badly rusted nuts. I start pulling the heads, (you're thinking, "Oh, here it comes, you pulled the barrel out"), nope, just missed that too. We'll, what's the problem you ask? Well, I did have two bent push rods and tubes. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1TGOGgpYuJpTEo5SkZZUnZiVm8&usp=sharing Hmmnnn..... First head off and cleaned up real nice. Little to no pitting. Nice. Second one??? Ughhhhh. In case you didn't notice in the pix, the one with the valves open is OFF the motor. They're jammed open. Combustion tore into the seat and spark plug area. Badly. Only heads I have in my stash have cracks between the seats. Anyone run heads like that or is that a 200 mile death sentence. If the latter, Anyone got a clean single head looking for a cheap date? Thanks, TJ 87 2.1 WBX Wolfsburg |
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