[Vwdiesel] Excessive blow by

[Smith, Michael]

I can't comment on the engine specs, etc., but I will agree on the garage
space comment.
I was FORCED to have mine small.....very small.  Ran out of $$ when we
moved.
I had wanted a 30'X40' barnstyle...2 storey.  What I got was no separate
garage at all.
I ended up making it one end of the basement, as we put our minihome on a
basement, thus
my garage is only about 15.5'x17.5'........SMALL !

On one side of the garage is my Austin Mini Cooper I'm restoring and on the
other side I work on my other various
cars, like my 86 Golf Diesel.

Sure isn't a lot of EXTRA room, like for standing, sitting, tools, etc. 

LOL!

Mike in NB

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [SMTP:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Bart Wineland
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:47 AM
> To:	vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject:	Re: [Vwdiesel] Excessive blow by
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I would love to offer an opinion on your engine since we have had similar 
> results with our rebuilds but with my success rate I am going to let 
> someone else answer your ring questions. My bet will be that you should
> not 
> reuse rings but think you should wait for an expert to answer. Also when I
> 
> do it again I will go with the chromed rings that Loren suggests. My 25k 
> rebuild is now on my garage floor waiting to be torn down again. I put my 
> $300 junkyard 1.6 na in last week. It started and ran pretty good and did 
> not smoke at all like my rebuilt. I felt I may have turned a corner. I
> went 
> to top off the coolant and noticed a thin layer of nice black diesel oil 
> floating on top Monday night.  I hoped it might have been from rough 
> handling when the engine was pulled and on its side and all the 
> transporting of the engine but still don't know.  I flushed the coolant 
> system and while it was warming up  the engine stalled very abruptly while
> 
> I was revving it up some. I actually think it ran out of fuel. I put 5 
> gallons in last night and it will not start now. It tries and makes black 
> smoke. I don't know if it could have slipped timing or not but plan to 
> start there tonight.
> 
> One thing I do feel qualified to offer an opinion on is make your garage
> as 
> big as you can afford :)
> 
> Gook Luck!
> 
> Bart
> 
> At 05:02 AM 12/8/2004 -0500, mikitka wrote:
> >  Well once my garage is built I'm going to tear back into the engine.
> With
> >over 5k miles on the rebuild I'm getting excessive blow by. Just to much
> air
> >flow out the breather valve, along with a nice oil mist. I guess
> something
> >is up with the rings. Great compression but for some reason it is still
> >allowing blow by. My question is would it be a good idea to get a new set
> of
> >rings to fit my .020 over pistons and install them after I rehone the
> >cylinders?  If the rings that are in there now are good, should I go back
> >with just honing the cylinders and installing the same rings? That is if
> I
> >don't find anything wrong with the rings when I pull the pistons, or just
> >put new rings in? Any tips as to protecting the crank in the process of
> >honing the cylinders? I don't see a need to pull the entire engine, but
> if
> >the shop that did the machine work wants it out I guess I will not have a
> >choice since they will go back over it for me at no cost since this
> >shouldn't be happening. If all goes well I should have a nice new 30' x
> 36'
> >garage by the New Year. Keep your fingers crossed.
> >Nick
> >
> >PS thanks for all the help, as a newcomer to this place, I feel like I
> have
> >been here for years. :)
> >
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