[Vwdiesel] head gasket?

[dieseltdi at verizon.net]

Yep hydraulic head.  I spent about an hour perusing the web and found that it is a direct fit.  I don’t have the Hylomar spray but I do have the tube version the I have used on head gaskets for years.  Previous to that, I used to be able to find a liquid stuff that was used in air cooled air plane engines.  Apparently you would spread this stuff on both sides of the engine block, add a thread made of cotton or something and then assemble.  I never had a problem with a head assembled with that stuff. Tomorrow I intend to remove the oil cooler as that seems to be the easiest first step.  Besides, I had to order the head gasket as NO ONE locally would even try to get it. Hayden

> On Mar 11, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Andrew .Libby <libbybapa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If your engine is the hydraulic lifter style then it is a direct fit.  If it has the solid lifters then it will not work without a fair amount of custom work.
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> I would give a big recommendation to using hylomar spray and doing a light spray on both sides of the gasket, the head and the block surface.  It does an excellent job of eliminating the pesky weeping leaks around the oil drains and the pressurized oil channel between cyl 3+4.  
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:25 PM, <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:
> Anyone know if I can use the metal 1.9 AAZ gasket on the 1.6 motor?  I mean, if I am going to remove the head, I might as well put the best stuff back in it.  I already have ARP studs so why not a metal head gasket?  Thoughts?
> hayden
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"God is not a diviner being or a magician, but the creator who brought everything to life. Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of things that evolve.” Pope Pius XII
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” 
“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run."
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”  Alexis de Tocqueville

Proud owner of:
2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ecodiesel
1968 Beetle
1982 VW Jetta Coupe GTD "FrankenJetta"
And many, many, many VWs; from a 1947 Beetle (13 Beetles total), to Vans (5 - 3 splitties  2 bay window (both were campers), 1 Vanagon Westy, Rabbits (3), Karmen Ghia (1), Jettas (11), Passats (2), Dasher (1), New Beetle (1), Rabbit Convertible (1) and Rabbit Pickups (3) most now gone but not forgotten.