[Vwdiesel] Initial Diagnosis: 1998 VW TDI Jetta

[James Hansen]

Well, that's pretty cool. Cylinder walls are unscathed, or are they scored?
How many miles on the engine Stephen?
Be sure the piston height is the same as it's neighbours.  If the gasket was
leaking, and the PO hydrolocked it on more than one occasion, if he tried
hard, say pullstart or something high powered, there may be a bent rod.
-james

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Kraus
Sent: January-08-11 1:46 PM
To: dieseltdi at verizon.net
Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Initial Diagnosis: 1998 VW TDI Jetta

James: The spot did not change, it stayed constant in one position, I could
turn the crank back and it would freeze. I had already set the cam to TDC as
well.

Discoveries made today:

Head pulled, good condition, no dropped valves and no foreign debris.
HOWEVER, excessive oil in the #2 cylinder, I believe it was there before I
pulled the head. The #2 piston also has heavy coking from oil consumption,
#3 had some minor coking as well, #1 and #4 looked clean. I am beginning to
suspect the head gasket was leaking oil into the piston and caused it to
hydrolock due to oil. Otherwise, once head was pulled the engine does a
complete 360 stroke without issue.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:22 PM, <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:

> Sounds like a a dropped valve or a broken glowplug.  You may be very
lucky.
>  Hayden
> On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Stephen Kraus wrote:
>
> > Well as you all know I purchased a 1998 Jetta TDI for $600, siezed
> engine.
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> > Well after initial look over, the engine turns freely one way, and the
> other
> > until it hits something. This is looking better and better
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