[Vwdiesel] Why #3

[LBaird119@aol.com]

Anyone else ever have that kind of failure?


  A friend's Rabbit dropped the head off an exhaust valve. It bounced 
around in there and trashed the head.  Don't remember if it broke the 
piston or not.  He was actually able to rebuild the block!  Just needed 
a rebuildable head, which came off a car I'd fairly recently tuned up with 
new injectors, timing and so on.  
  Those people were SO happy to have the car running again.  BUT, 
they failed to keep an eye on the temp.  It blew a hose and they kept 
going until it died, ended up at a friend's shop, changed hands and 
converted to gas.  :-(
  Gee, now that I think about it he needed a BLOCK and actually was able 
to reuse the head!  I have the crank in my Jetta so it mustlve been the 
block that died.  Lucky I remember that far back anyway!  ;-)  
     Loren