[Vwdiesel] RE: Dropped Pre-combustion chamber insert

[Maynard Southard]

Bart:
This same thing happened to me on my '82 Diesel Westy.  Yours is the only other
example I have heard of (I've had people swear to me that the pre-chamber
insert cannot physically come out when the head is on!).  I kept my mangled
plug and piston as proof!

Hayden sent me a used piston and I installed a Quantum TD head.  Fired up ok,
but I've yet to finish other restoration and put Reinhardt on the road.  Maybe
this year ...

Maynard Southard  (OvO) '79
'86 Double Cab Diesel "Col. Potter"
'82 Westy Diesel "Reinhardt"
'82 Vanagon GL Diesel "Sluggo"
'02 EV GLS "AMPvan"
'93 EV GL "Klinger"
'00 Golf GLS TDI "WooHoo"
'84 Jetta GL TD "Donor"


On Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:10 PM, bwinelan at allegheny.edu wrote:
> ... When I bought the car the engine was shot and it turned
> one of the pre-combustion plugs came out of its place at some time and
> hammered itself into the top of the piston and egg shaped the original seat
> it came out of so badly it trashed the head.