Re: Playing with the head (8v)

["Steven Toughill" <toughil@bellatlantic.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Goodman <mgoodman@sfu.ca>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: Playing with the head (8v)


>
>Wow!  Isn't playing with the scirocco fun!
>
>I just took off the head off my little 8v because the head gasket was a
>leaking... after taking it off, was I ever surprised!  The valves had all
>this light brown crap (carbon deposits?) and where very worn!  Needless to
>say, I had the local machine shop redo all the valves, lifters (solid) and
>a few other seals... after getting it back... wow does it ever look clean!
>It looks like aluminum again and its shinny!!  I can't believe it... this
>is my first time doing the difficult of a job... took me quite a while to
>take it off... but I loved every second of it!  so anyways I have a few
>little question for the 'rocco maniacs before I put it back together!
>
>I took off the warm air hose... is there any need to re-attach it?

No

>It seems kinda pointless since my airbox has a many of whole is it anyways
>(cheese whiz style!)...  if I do take it off, where should i hang it?

Remove it

>I'm thinking the reason I have so much crap deposits is because of a wrong
>air/fuel mixture... i'm I right? .

No brown is normal Heavy Black Deposits would be carbon or shinny black
deposits would be oil

> The engine did have 212000km on it, but
>it still looked like excessive wear... I looked up in bentley, but
>couldn't find it... could anyone give me a page number or a clue what
>section fixed the mixture might be in?

I don't know the page number but you'll need a dwell meter or duty cycle
meter to set it corectly

Steven Toughill
ASE Cert VW Technician
Volkstech Inc.
www.volks-tech.com
soon to be cable connected


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