[s-cars] Is taking the head off difficult?

[Fred Munro]

Oops, overheating can be bad news, Ed. If the HG is bad, it is MANDATORY
that you get the head checked for warping before putting it all back
together again.

A friend just went through this with his '92 Camry. He noticed it
overheating and thought he could ease it home by watching the temp gauge.
He was wrong. The shop replaced the rad, WP, thermostat and t-belt. He
hadn't gone 20 km when he blew the new rad apart. The head was warped so
bad you could remove some head bolts by hand. He ended up scrapping the car
- hey, he wanted a new Swedish Brick anyway.

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ed Walsh [SMTP:rundeep_32 at yahoo.com]
Sent:	Saturday, August 17, 2002 8:38 AM
To:	jeff posto; Igor Kessel; Walsh, Edward
Cc:	's-car-list at audifans.com'; 'rundeep_32 at yahoo.com'
Subject:	Re: [s-cars] Is taking the head off difficult?

Yes, Igor is the man!  All of this information is
wonderful.

I feel that I could do the job under the right
circumstances, however, time is the limiting factor
and I just don't have the experience to calculate the
amount required for *me* to do the job.

I have another appt. with the dealer on the 26th....
Hopefully they diagnose the turbo or something else.
But I think it will be the HG.  I was looking through
some records and noticed the car was in for repair
about 7,000 miles ago.  The trouble?  The car
overheated due to a bad thermostat...  :-(


--- jeff posto <jpostup at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Ed,
> Igor provided an amazing guide for you. It is
> certainly tempting.
> However, if you've never done this before, why
would
> you want your first to be your S Car.?  I can't
> determine if you've been in this deep, so pardon
me
> if you have a lot of experience.
> Igor is right about taking time and details.
That''s
> the reason I do my own maintenance.  What you are
> about to embark on is rather significant. Just be
> sure you can execute it including all the
> experienced based details Igor may not have
written
> down.
> Just trying to keep you out of the swamp.
> JP
>  Igor Kessel wrote:Jeez, folks, I normally don't
> write in such a terrible
> high-school-dropout babble. :( As was typing this
> post this AM my wife
> was pulling me literally by my sleeve coz we had
an
> appointment in
> midtown Manhattan at 13:00.
>
> Ed, if (cost of tools + cost of parts) = the
> dealer's quote, then it's a
> no brainer IMO. You do the job yourself, you do
it
> meticulously right,
> down to every ridiculously little detail, and you
> get to keep a set of
> tools in the process.
>
> Igor
>
> "Walsh, Edward" wrote:
> >
> > Zoinks!
> >
> > Sounds like I'll need roughly $350 worth of
> one-time-use (hopefully!) tools.
> > Add that to the cost of bolts, gaskets and
parts
> and the dealer's quote of
> > $1,300 doesn't sound so bad.....
> >
> > It does sound like a doable project,
however.
> Would the dealership discount
> > the labor cost of the T belt, S belt, water
pump
> etc, "because they are
> > already in there"?
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Kessel [mailto:igor at s-cars.org]
> > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:38 PM
> > To: Walsh, Edward
> > Cc: 's-car-list at audifans.com';
> 'rundeep_32 at yahoo.com'
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Is taking the head off
> difficult?
> >
> > "Walsh, Edward" wrote:
> > >
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > If my HG is blown and I decide to take
the head
> off myself, would I be
> > > setting up for a 12 Corona disaster? I
have
> swapped out springs, changed
> > > the VC gasket and stuff like that, but
never
> performed open heart surgery.
> > >
> > > Other than a Bentley, do I need any
special
> tools to remove the head?
> >
> > Ed,
> > I heven't done an AAn head thus far
(knocking on
> my head eeer... I meant
> > wood), but I've doen plenty much 10v, 8v
heads and
> even a Benz head here
> > and a Mitsu head there. In fact I am doing
the
> 1.8T head off my wife's
> > A4 this very moment.
> >
> > In a nut shell yes, it is doable, it's just
not
> your average elementary
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