[Vwdiesel] Do Diesels ever need similar type cleaning?

[Stephen Kraus]

Okay you are all terrifying me.

I usually start the car and drive it with the cold start throttle on until
its warm sometime down the road and shut it off, is this bad?
As far as I can tell the engine is receiving no extra wear and tear and its
fires up clean every time, but I don't want to blow a head gasket.

I use this thing for both highway miles and city driving

Its a 1989 Jetta 1.6 IDI


On 7/24/07, Terry Briggs <vbriggs at stny.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I think i'll just be using stock type bolts, the accident made things
> tight so to speak. i plan on doing the timing belt as well, it only has
> about 35k on it, but i'd just be changing it next summer anyways,  The
> head gasket on the golf is the original w/ 276k on it, so if stock
> bolts last that long again, bonus !
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Tony and Lillie wrote:
>
> > Sorry to hear about your hand. Anyhow, good luck on the Golf. Of
> > course, we will be here to answer any questions. Are you planning on
> > using head studs in stead of bolts, BTW?
> >
> > Tony Hoffman
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Briggs" <vbriggs at stny.rr.com>
> > To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Do Diesels ever need similar type cleaning?
> >
> >
> >> 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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