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Slow to rev and 4000 rpm max under load - Ideas to cure? Now cured but o...

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In a message dated 2/22/2003 5:07:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tberk@mindspring.com writes:

<<Skim (I don't really mean remove material) uh oh- dress the iron block
with fine sand paper wrapped around a block. Clean, clean, clean.
Remove ALL grease prior to reinstall and away you go.>>

And use a high quality german gasket, don't go cheap on this, and follow 
proper torqeing procedures.  I did mine when I was 16 and didn't know jack 
about working on cars, but I used the best gasket I could find and followed 
the bentley manual and 7 years later its still fine.

Brian 86 16v
98 Jetta GLX Vr6

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rd Time, tberk@mindspring.com writes:<BR>
<BR>
&lt;&lt;Skim (I don't really mean remove material) uh oh- dress the iron blo=
ck<BR>
with fine sand paper wrapped around a block. Clean, clean, clean.<BR>
Remove ALL grease prior to reinstall and away you go.&gt;&gt;<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT  COLOR=3D"#000000" style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3D2=
 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" FACE=3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">And use a high quality germa=
n gasket, don't go cheap on this, and follow proper torqeing procedures.&nbs=
p; I did mine when I was 16 and didn't know jack about working on cars, but=20=
I used the best gasket I could find and followed the bentley manual and 7 ye=
ars later its still fine.<BR>
<BR>
Brian 86 16v<BR>
98 Jetta GLX Vr6</FONT></HTML>

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