[Vwdiesel] Head Gasket

[The President]

Increase in water PRESSURE I meant!!


>From: "The President" <quantum-man at hotmail.co.uk>
>To: jwchou at yahoo.com, vwdiesel at vwfans.com
>Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Head Gasket
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:30:27 +0000
>
>The high temperature warning lamp could supply a signal to trip a small
>relay to trip a larger relay  to set a buzzer off.
>You could use a spare oil pressure sender plumbed into the water to
>indirectly sense an increase in water temp by virtue of an increase in 
>water
>temp. What's a rad cap set to? 1bar ish?
>
>Mark
>
>
> >From: jeremy <jwchou at yahoo.com>
> >To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> >Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Head Gasket
> >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:07:45 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Is there a devise on the market that you can hook it up pararrel to your
> >water
> >gauge so when the water temperature reaches certain danger point it will
> >sound
> >the alarm to alert the driver? It would save all these heads/engines and
> >unnecessary heartburns.
> >
> >--- William J Toensing <toensing at wildblue.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I had a blown head gasket on my 1981 Dasher diesel which was unusual.
> >The
> > > exaust port had blowen to the outside but I suspect yours is either
> >ingesting
> > > coolent into the engine , exausting exaust gas into the cooling 
>system,
> >or
> > > both. If you see any black sludge in the cooling system in is a sign 
>of
> >a
> > > blowen head gasket. Overheating can cause the head to warp & blow a 
>head
> > > gasket. Borrow or buy streight edge to see if the head & or block is
> >warped.
> > > As I recall, if it is warped over 5,000 of an inch it should be
> >resurfaced,
> > > although if warped too mush, if may not be useable. I am not an expert
> >so if
> > > anyone disagrees with me, take their advise, not mine. However, I 
>would
> >think
> > > there is a good chance you won't have to overhaul the whole engine, if
> >it was
> > > sound before your son overheated it. My stepdaughter did the same to 
>my
> > > diesel Rabbit & destroyed the engine.
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