Re: SV: [engine] Cracked head???

[aventari <aventari@cts.com>]

At 02:24 PM 1/13/98 -0700, you wrote:

>That's interesting - I ran into that lately helping a friend put a reworked
>head on his JH.  He only got 6 of them at first (that's all they had, I
>guess), and they had washers and looked for all the world exactly like the
>stock ones.  The rest of the bunch (that he bought later) did not have
>washers, but were tapered just under the head - enough so that the washer
>didn't seem to make sense (with the taper and the washer, there would have
>been less thread length below).  We just put them in like we got them.  It
>hasn't leaked or anything yet, but did we do the wrong thing?
>
>Kevin Wenzel
>1981 VW Scirocco S (w/1.8 JH) - DSP #81 (Blix)
>Director of Network Operations, privateI, LLC        
>http://www.privateI.com/

I'd tend to say you did the wrong thing, because the head's aluminum and
the washers spread that huge 44+ ft pounds over a bigger area so you dont
crack or do anything bad to the head. JMHO I dont know though. Everyone
runs into this problem and no one knows why!!

Kevin Fry

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