[Vwdiesel] head gasket replacement

mark shepherd mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk
Sun Jan 6 01:33:31 PST 2008


Hi P &D
Before you redo the gasket recheck the glow plugs. I know you renewed them 
but they are easy to kill when inserting by over-torquing.  It's quite easy 
and common for people to have a dead glowplug but overlook it and then do 
other tests and findout other problems that arent there. Like low 
compression. depriming pumps etc. Someone  (I hope my questioning helped) 
was about to do a re ring + and apparently had a loss of prime faulty pump 
problem because of poor starting and a low mesasured compression (low 
300's!). I went against consensus ;o) In the end he had been starting on 
only 2 plugs!.... Now he appears to be very happy. If you have to replace 
plugs then take the lot out and replace with Duraterms and replace busbar 
with separate wires. For easy future checking.

Regards
Mark


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From: "Pam & Doug Boes" <db53248 at alltel.net>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:43 PM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] head gasket replacement


> Looks like I will be doing another head gasket soon. Does someone have a
> step-by-step where I can lock the cam and IP, pull the head replace the
> gasket and put everything back w/o having to retime the IP?
>
> The last time I did this one I was able to roll the exhaust manifold back
> out of the way and pull the head up off the studs. It has the C-clamp
> exhaust system. I think I may have put in too big of gasket and I'll need 
> to
> measure the #1 piston stickout while the head is off and the engine is at 
> #1
> TDC.
>
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