[Vwdiesel] Do Diesels ever need similar type cleaning?

[Terry Briggs]

I'd agree with that, both my diesels saw a fairly hard life [ compared 
to a gasser] lots of high rpm freeway miles, either camp lejeune to ny 
and back twice a month many moons ago ['79 diesel rabbit] or my 500 
miles a week trip to work now and I've never had issue with the rabbit, 
don't suspect I'll see much when I do the head gasket on the golf in a 
couple weeks, which would have been done a month ago had i not hit a 
deer on my motorcycle and busted up my right hand badly.
On Jul 24, 2007, at 11:04 PM, B & R Decker wrote:

>     My old time VW mechanic was head service writer in the mid 80's 
> for Pete
> Lovely VW in Fife WA (the largest VW dealership in the NW at the 
> time). He
> always says the VW 1.5 and 1.6 diesel is much more prone to blown head
> gaskets and other troubles when used in stop and go city driving than 
> when
> it was used in a high mileage situation. He thinks that cold starting 
> is the
> hardest thing on the high compression VW diesel when the block and 
> head are
> cold and the head bolt tension would be the least. I'm not sure that 
> is a
> correct assumption but I know that whenever I go to revive a gas 
> rabbit that
> has sat for a long time it is usually a fueling or electrical problem 
> that
> caused it demise but with a diesel it is almost always a blown head 
> gasket.
> Loren's right if you drive your 1.5 or 1.6 easy with lots of low rpm 
> driving
> you will have a carboned up engine.
> Brian Decker
>
>> But in a nutshell, no EGR, no cleaning required.
>>
>
>   I believe it was Scott that found out (got scolded) that if
> you drive your "early" VW diesel too easily though, your valve
> will gunk up on the backsides with carbon deposits.  In other
> words, drive it spriitedly once in a while and enjoy.  :-)
>   Our service mgr. alway said the ones that were driven harder
> had less problems and ran better than the easy driven cars.  He
> never knew just why but then they weren't all that old at that
> time either.
>      Loren
>
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