[Vwdiesel] 1981 n/a Jetta

[Terry Briggs]

intermediate shaft bearings, good to know. I'll be sure and get 
everything prior to opening it up. I don't have any 2.2's, but I have a 
pair of '57 1600s motors and 1, 2.4  currently on the stand being built 
for my buddies dad's '72 911, I'm really beging to hate the fuel 
injection they used on them too, all of which are project car engines 
for him.
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:44 AM, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/1/2006 11:33:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> vbriggs at stny.rr.com writes:
>
>> I'm competent at engine rebuilds, I rebuild several old vw and porsche
>> air cooleds every year and have rebuilt more than a few V8's, just
>> never opened up a vw diesel block. I know I've heard through here 
>> about
>> the minor cracks around the valves.  Are there any issues with cracks
>> at the crank journals ?I figure I'll do a compression test prior to
>> pulling the head off just to see where I'm at for a starting point.
>> Does the bentley have diameter specs as far as crank journals and the
>> like. On your advice I'll probably have the head and block magna 
>> fluxed
>> to check it out completely.  does anyone know what color the stock
>> blocks are, I think they are black like the gasser, but I might get
>> creative and go with something a bit more flashy to spruce it up a
>> little. It will be an entire winter project, so I'll have time to do 
>> it
>> right the first time { I hope }
>>
>
>   Never saw any cracks around the crank journals on the
> VW diesels.  They have a pretty stout bottom end.  Quite
> impressive really.  Block cracks come radially from the
> head bolt holes.  Usually from previous rebuilds where the
> holes were not CLEAN before reassebly.
>   Cracks between the valves are usually a non-issue.
> Magnafluxing would be a tad pointless on an aluminum
> head but I'm sure you already know that.  ;-)  Don't think
> I've ever seen any outside cracks other than between the
> valves.  I have one head that was cracked from coolant into
> the exhaust port somewhere.  Never did chase the crack
> down but it leaked out the tail pipe as fast as I poured it in
> the reservior!
>   Blocks are VW diesel green from the factory.  I painted
> my Rabbit's red when I rebuilt it ala Porsche S.  Have any
> extra Porsche 2.2 S engines lying around?
>      Loren
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