[Vwdiesel] adventures in engine pulling

[Terry Briggs]

got a phone call from my buddy a few minutes ago, he had an explanation 
for the crack. He looked at the engine today with the flood light, then 
went out and looked at the engine compartment, he says from the looks 
of it, it isn't a freeze related crack, but an impact related crack 
attributed to blunt force trauma induced by remington, there was a 
small hole in the fender on the passenger side and a little bigger hole 
in the inner fender right at the body/fender junction, didn't notice 
the exterior damage due to the rust. So .... the head is most likely 
fine, I did drain coolant from the block prior to pulling it and got a 
lot from the head. So things are looking up, still not good, I have 
neither time nor money to deal with fixing the block, though I would 
like to kick his boys butt. in the mean time, I'll keep my eyes open 
for a good block in the boneyard.
On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:57 PM, James Hansen wrote:

>
>>> Unless any of you think that there is a chance the block could be
>>> welded, but I doubt it really could, cast is a pain to weld to begin
>>> with, add in an oil and coolant saturated and it gets even worse. in
>>> the mean time, anyone know a good shop that can check my current head
>>> to see if it's salvageable.
>
>
> Welllll, it can be welded if it is just a frost break that is ONLY
> involving the external water jacket.  It does get kinda involved, but
> can certainly be done if absolutely necessary.  However, there are 
> still
> lots of good blocks out there, so it hardly pays for the effort.  With
> proper prep, welding around the oil and coolant are not an issue.    It
> really depends if it is only an external crack, or goes inside.   If
> it's inside, the efforts get pretty heroic to salvage, and involve
> machining to finish up, which gets costly.  Easier to get Loren to chop
> one out of a billet with that fancy mill.
> ;-)
> -James
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