Re: New 2.0 frags a head gasket...Once again the car puts a gun tomy head

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <scirocco@absomotherfuckinlutely.com>]

Yeah, my Rabbit weeps oil out back there, too... but I'm NOT about to pull
the head and replace the gasket again - it runs great and has perfect
compression, so I'm not worrying about it : )
	-Josiah

'84 GTi
http://bork.hampshire.edu/josiah

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, the mad bastard wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> > I knew this car couldnt be happy long with a new motor and head. I was
> > rotating the tires this weekend when I notice oil dripping down the back
> of
> > the motor..hmmm. The head is perfectly dry and its puking oil down the
> back
> > of block...fucking great. So I wiped it down took it for a 30 min drive
> and
> > it soaked the area again.
> 
>     awesome!  so i'm not the only one :)
> 
>     i've just come to expect this.  i get a lot of loss.  i actually am
> missing one of my valve cover bolts, so when i really get on it, the smell
> of oil dropping onto a super-hot header fills the car.  the first couple of
> times it happened, i was scared as shit, but now it's like, i dunno,
> refreshing...
> 
> > Looks like a blown head gasket to me. Well at
> > least I got almost 8K miles out the car before it had a major failure. I
> > know alot of 16Vs weep oil back here, my 1.8 did till I put a new head
> > gasket on it and it stayed dry for 100K miles, but it is not unreasonable
> to
> > expect it not to leak with a rebuilt block and a brand spankin new head.
> > Didnt your 2.0 do this too Craig? Did you get your head gasket from
> > Potterman?
> 
>     shannon, is your head decked?  mine is, and i'm constantly beating the
> snot out of it, so i sorta expect it.  what the hell, a little oil
> consumption ain't so bad.  sure, it costs money, but i just pretend it's
> real expensive gas or something.
> 
>     however, you are making me wonder if i should tear the head off and
> replace the head gasket.  i probably should, just to inspect the gear
> underneath...
> 
> > With new euro bumpers and custom grill and boxes of new parts she is
> > sitting in the damn garage where the spoiled bitch belongs. What is it
> with
> > this/these cars? They have us either maxed out on the bliss meter or ready
> > to douse ourselves and them with gasoline and smoke a cigarette? ughhh....
> 
>     dude, you slay me.  that is so funny...although true.  love is
> blindness, i guess...
> 
> jason
> the mad bastard
> 
> 
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