[Vwdiesel] Engine rebuild, now sucking diesel

[Martin K]

I finally managed to get the engine together and installed it into the
van , most of the time was spent finding the various bits in a variety
of places. Still there is the pan to sort out.

As well as sucking diesel it is sucking air through someplace in the pump.

Despite taking a lot of time checking and rechecking things before I
started up the engine, my guard dropped after the test drive when I went
to tighten the head bolts  part 2. I tightened them all to the same 180
degrees as in stage one. Then it dawned on me as I was tightening the
last bolt that it should have been  a 1/4 turn,  90 degrees.
I guess that you cant undo by just by loosening each bolt a  1/4 turn.

If by some chance the head is still okay what  about stage 3 of the
headbolt tightening after a 1000km or is that stretching optimism to the
level of one of my head bolts.

Martin