[Vwdiesel] Head/Valve work question

[Dave Cook]

Whoops, forgot to mention that it is an '01 TDI Jetta head.

Dave Cook


--- On Mon, 5/23/11, Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Head/Valve work question
> To: "Audi-VW-Diesels Group" <Audi-VW-Diesels at yahoogroups.com>, "VW Diesel Group" <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Date: Monday, May 23, 2011, 11:16 PM
> Got the head back from the machine
> shop, all looks pretty good.  Except the guy said that
> it had two bad lifter followers.  (The thing between
> the cam and the valve).   He said that they
> weren't rotating like they should, so the cam wore a
> "groove" (for lack of a better term) in them.  
> 
> He said these wear for a lot of GM cars' valves and many
> times are all replaced as a matter of reworking the head,
> but he wasn't sure if the same was true for VW diesel
> heads.
> 
> If it were you, would you just replace the two that have
> the "groove" or would you replace them all?  They will
> run about $18 each!
> 
>   
> Dave Cook
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