[Vwdiesel] oil squirters

[Shawn Wright]

On 14 Jan 2006 at 0:55, hwy9fergs at comcast.net <hwy9fergs at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Andrew, I guess it's time I piped up about this, Svend even asked a few weeks
> ago about my efforts to fit squirters into an NA block. The later NA blocks
> (after CR) had the same casting as the turbo blocks, so they can be machined to
> accept squirters. I am not aware of anyone (including myself) who has ever
> actually done it. When I contacted the dealer parts guys about the squirters,
> they quoted around 40 dollars US each. (ouch) I then heard from a reasonably
> reliable source that some of the Audi four bangers were equipped with the same
> squirters, so they could concievably be acquired at a pick and pull or other
> source for far less than 160 bucks---but---you'd have to find and pull them
> out--and I'm not too sure of how doable that is with the crank in place. Loren
> told me about the mod you might be remembering.  His solution on one of his
> engines was to drill a small channel into the main bearing oil gallery adjacent
> to each cylinder, allowing oil to squirt from them up under the pistons. 
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Looks like your message was cut off...?

Yes, some of the Audi 4/5 cyl blocks use them, as do the VW 16V gas blocks. That certainly 
increases the number of them out there, lots of early Passats around here with the 2.0 16V, 
but I don't see many in the wreckers.


Shawn Wright
http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels
'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
'82 Diesel Westy 1.6NA
'85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA