[Vwdiesel] New Diesel Guy With a Problem

[Shirley, Mark R]

How about chasing the threads with the cylinder block upside down, so that
everything
falls out?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Wall [mailto:natewall1 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: LBaird119 at aol.com; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] New Diesel Guy With a Problem
>
>
> <<<Be SURE to chase out, clean out, blow out the head
> bolt holes/threads before reassembly or you run a good
> chance of cracking the block.>>>
>
> Yea, like I did. I used an old head bolt to chase the
> threads and sucked all the crud out w/ a soda straw
> duct taped vacuum cleaner hose. And I still cracked
> the block through a bolt hole the second time I
> installed the head onb the old motor.
>
> Use a tap to chase the threads! Is a bottoming tap
> needed?
>
> --Nate
>
>
> --- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> > > Do these symptoms mean that I have a leak (head
> > gasket) that is
> > >  allowing high pressure gas from a cylinder to
> > pump up the cooling
> > >  system?
> >
> >   Yup, classic symptoms.  The black is carbon soot
> > from the exhaust
> > getting into the coolant it sounds like, rather than
> > oil.  :)
> >   Since it still runs, you may not need to surface
> > the head but it needs
> > checked since the tolerance for warpage is minimal.
> >
> > Or is there some less dire explanation?
> >
> >   Not really.  Hopefully it's the gasket, otherwise
> > it'd have to be a cracked
> > block or head.  Usually not likely unless it's
> > really been overheated or
> > the gasket's been changed carlessly.  You need new
> > "stretch" bolts as
> > well as the proper thickness head gasket (there are
> > 3 possibilities).  Be
> > SURE to chase out, clean out, blow out the head bolt
> > holes/threads
> > before reassembly or you run a good chance of
> > cracking the block.
> > >
> > >
> > >  A chronic diesel guy in Seattle.
> >
> >   You're only 2 1/2 hours from me!  :)
> >      Loren
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