[Vwdiesel] Guess what I bought?

[Stephen Kraus]

Have you thought about using a rubber mallet and block of wood to hammer the
piston out?

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:44 PM, brian gochnauer <brian at gochnauer.net> wrote:

> I'll take "an injector was steaming instead of spraying and overheated the
> piston" for $10 (Jeopardy)
> I've have an ALH sitting on the floor from an '01 that has a seized piston
> (broke the connecting rod) but didn't damage the block.
> I bought a salvage engine for it. Haven't taken it apart to find out why it
> seized.
>
> The biggest issue may getting the torque converter off (if it is an
> automatic trans) the flywheel now that it can't be rotated to remove the
> bolts.
>
> briang
> Iowa
>
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:43:09 -0700
> From: Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Guess what I bought?
> To: vw fans <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
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>  Green 1998 Jetta mk3 tdi with frozen engine, siezed while cranking so I
> suspect little to no damage. Got for 600, will let you know how it goes
> - Sent by an Android
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