rabbit diesel - water in cylinder #1 (OT)

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

I talked with the machinists the other day about this. There are at least 5 
different gasket thicknesses for the head gasket. There should be tabs on 
the front of the engine to tell which one is installed.

Drew is the only oil burner I know of on the list. Come on Drew, chip in 
here!



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
www.menloparkrandd.com
www.montgomeryweb.org
Amsterdam NY





>From: "L F" <rocco16v@netzero.net>
>To: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>,<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: rabbit diesel - water in cylinder #1 (OT)
>Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:03:15 -0800
>
>Toby-
>   The head gasket is no longer "gasketing".  It'd be hard for the head to 
>warp on the engine unless it stretches the headbolts/studs.  Replace the 
>gasket and be on your merry way.
>  Never worked on an oil-burner, but head gaskets on a petrol engine are 
>quite straight-forward and I can't see where there would be much difference 
>in the procedure.
>   Go for it.
>
>Larry
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: T. Reed
>   To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>   Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:44 PM
>   Subject: OT: rabbit diesel - water in cylinder #1
>
>
>   Sorry for the non-scirocco post, but I thought I'd tap in to the
>   incredible knowledge base here for the sake of my friend.
>
>   He drove his Rabbit Diesel home and parked it, let it sit overnight and
>   when he came outside to start it the starter only made a click sound. I
>   had him check out the ground from the battery which he said looked okay 
>so
>   I then told him to pull the glow plugs one-at-a-time and try to spin the
>   starter. When he pulled the plug for the #1 cylinder and tried the
>   starter he said a bunch of water and diesel shot out of the hole and the
>   starter would now spin. He put the glow plug back on and the car
>   started and ran "normal".
>
>   So what's the diagnosis? He complained that the car has been loosing
>   coolant; about a cup every 10 miles. He found a hole in the bottom of 
>the
>   radiator and epoxied over it as a temporary fix; but it has still been
>   losing water. It wouldn't surprise me if the car has been overheated at
>   some point in the past..
>
>   I'm thinking the head gasket has failed and/or the head is warped or
>   cracked. A compression check is certainly in order but he will have to 
>buy
>   a compression tester.. I'm not sure if he wants to spend the money.
>
>   My understanding of diesel heads is that there are such tight clearances
>   that a warped head is not worth trying to resurface. If this is the 
>case,
>   what is the going rate for a diesel head? $50? $75?
>
>   One last thing-- for those who have done a headgasket on a vw diesel, 
>how
>   difficult was it.. and did you need any special tools to work with the
>   injection pump being driven off the timing belt, etc?
>
>   -Toby
>
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