Date:         Fri, 6 Dec 96 15:35:29 EST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         jag@cs.rochester.edu
Subject:      Re: 1.6 litre diesel heads - regular vs turbo-diesel

meek@oanet.com (Gary Meek) Writes:
>        Since I cannot find a source of the damaged pre-combustion chamber
>cap, I now must replace the head on my turbo-diesel vanagon.
:
<snip>

Yes the TD and the regular heads are apparently quite different. The Part
Place catalog lists some of the differences.

Here is a (maybe dumb) idea:

Get a warped head cheap/free.
Carefully tap out one of the precombustion chamber insert with a drift.
Check dimensions.
If a fit, heat your head, freeze the insert. Drop insert into head.

Now Bentley explicitly says that VW does not sell the inserts. There
may be a reason for that. On the other hand a head without an insert is
pretty much worthless anyway, and this if it works saves the $3-400
for a rebuilt TD head.

/Martin