[Vwdiesel] Crap!

[Erik Lane]

I wish that I could help. I live here in Portland, but the only spare
engines I have are 1.6. My dad has a 1.5, but it's in a running rabbit.
That's the only one we have.

Sorry, and good luck!

Erik

On 10/23/05, LBaird119 at aol.com <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> But on the plus side, my son FINALLY did some automotive wrenching
> and actually did it by himself!!! Down side is the Dasher engine. We had
> water in the combustion and even a tad in the oil so the head came off
> AGAIN with only a couple miles on it since the Total Seal-ized rings
> went in. Gasket was fairly gone in the front he said. I went up to take
> a look and the block is cracked at two bolt holes. :-( I KNOW I ran a
> tap through them and blew them out! Still, somehow I screwed up it
> appears. Anybody in the PNW have a 1.5 block kicking around? The
> other option is to pull the engine and tranny out of the Quantum I
> have sitting around, transfer the rings into it, bag the 1.5 and sell the
> BAE kit on ebay. :-P
> Probably the more wise option but I hate to scrap the engine with the
> rest of it perfectly good and the Quantum is no beauty but it's also not
> worth fixing with everything else I have to drive. It'd just go to scrap
> unless someone would want one for parts.
> Loren
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