AGAIN!Re: EMERGENCY question on Valve Adjustment -please help!

[pbureau@attbi.com (ATS - Patrick Bureau)]

Sorry for the bad reply, I was at work and it was late last night... my bad.
after rereading the message I think I am still confused here..but here goes.

1) 2 head, one ported on stock
2) ported head has bad shims, stock has good shims
3) 2 JH blocks, one bad compression one good compression
4) you are going to use the good compression block end of story on the block
side of things
5) you tried swapping cam/shims from stock head, and it does not fit
properly on ported head
6) logic dictactes.... get a shim kit and solve problem. or if you get shim
specs you need (see bentley for how to measure this info) get a set of shims
for ported head from dealer (they usually keep them in stock or call
pottermans they have them too :)


sorry cannot think of anything else.
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ATS - Patrick Bureau
1985 8v **Planning 3A/JH  Upgrade**
1988 16v ** Euro Project/maybe 8v **
Web Site : http://longcoeur.com/scirocco


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Robbie Cotner [mailto:robw_z@yahoo.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:43 PM
  To: pbureau@attbi.com
  Cc: scirocco-1@scirocco.org
  Subject: AGAIN!Re: EMERGENCY question on Valve Adjustment -please help!



  Can't swap heads-  the one with bad valve adjustment has gone through
hours of porting, polishing, cleaning, and massaging.  I don't really think
it's that much trouble to swap cams and shims, I could do it in 20 minutes.
So why not at least TRY and see if it the valves are still within spec?

  -rob

  pbureau@attbi.com wrote:

    why go through all the trouble of swapping cam and shims
    from one head to the other?

    why not just take the good head and the good block and
    put them together JH parts are interchangeble what ever
    year they are from...
    --
    ====
    ATS - Patrick Bureau
    1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
    1988 16v (project car!!)
    >
    > Alright, here's the long story short: I have two JH 1.8's, one has bad
rings
    > yet perfectly adjusted valves, and the other has GREAT compression but
all the
    > exhaust valves are out of adjustment. Already tried shim swapping,
can't get it
    > right still. So can I take the cam and all the shims out of the motor
with the
    > bad rings yet perfect valve adjustment, and put them into the engine
with good
    > compression in the exact same order? The head's are SLIGHTLY
different, one is
    > an '83 and one an '84, the part numbers are the same except for the
letter at
    > the end: 026 103 373F and the '83 is 026 103 373H. Is that a
problem?Head
    > swapping is NOT an option due to the fact that I don't want to have to
port and
    > polish again- please help, on Friday I have to have my Scirocco out of
the
    > garage to get to a family reunion.
    >
    > thanks so much to any who may reply,
    >
    > Rob
    >
    >
    >
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