is anyone on here into '83 5000 Turbo Diesels ???

[Jim Jordan]

Hi,

This applies to gas heads as well.  One of the indications is laying down a
smoke screen for 1/2 mile after stopping at a stop light.  If the crack
accesses an oil passage, the crack will widen when the engine warms feeding
oil into a cylinder fouling the plug and smoking like crazy.  This happened
to me after a monkey lad of a wrench unnecessarily replaced a head and tried
to fix the smoking by using silicone plastic to seal the head/block
interface.  Of course, the smoke didn't go away until the head was replaced.
But the defective head had passed Audi rebuild specifications and it took
moving heaven and earth to get Audi to participate by picking up the costs
and supplying a new head.

Then there are the cracks in the block sometimes emanating from the head
attachment holes where some monkey lad has left coolant in the holes and
jumped on the stretch bolts with an air gun instead of step tightening as
they're supposed to.  Coolant lock will crack the block if left in the head
attach holes.  TNT Engineering in Kingman AZ did it to a block of mine but
tried to blame it on other sources.

Sorry for the top posting....

Cheers!

Jim Jordan

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