[Vwdiesel] Is a 1.5 diesel head interchangeable with the 1.6 diesel head?

[Tony and Lillie]

Yep, that's sort of what I was thinking. I'm picking the Jetta up this week, so I'll be able to look at it. BTW, that was also a problem back in teh day when we went to put a 1.8 head on the 1.6 block (gassers). The 1.8 had hydraulics and two drain holes, the 1.6 had the single small hole. We ended up tapping and pluging both of them, then redrilled the center hole to line up. Some silicone had to be added to the center hole, though, as the plug didn't make a perfect gasket mating surface. Anyhow, worked great, but these days I wonder why we put so much effort into that stuff.

Tony


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>  IT might be that if you put a 1.5 head on a 1.6 block that the drain 
>will fall inline well enough so as not to leak. I was thinking that it 
>left a small opening where dirt could get in though.  Whereas if you 
>put a 1.6 head on a 1.5 block it seemed like you could see daylight or 
>a water hole or something.  Been a LONG time since I tried it but 
>that's how I remember it being.  Hyd on a mech block was just loony 
>for lining up.
>    Loren