Want to see the inside of a WVO IDI? Pictures now work!

[SolarSteve]

I pulled the head off of my 1.6 N/A last night due to the stripped/broken #2 injector boss.  Here are a few pictures of what the piston tops and head look like after 1 year and 14,000 miles of burning WVO.







This is the crack/stripped boss

[Turbinepowered]

Doesn't look like those were the direct links to the pictures, as all I'm getting when I click them is the photobucket homepage.

Ah, wait... they're getting broken, 'cause of the length of the link. Are you using the "direct link" option under each picture?

[SolarSteve]

I honestly have no idea, everytime (other forums) I try to post pictures it fails.

I went to Photobucket and got my pictures on thier site.  Then I right clicked each picture, got the drop down box, clicked properties and copied the HTTP, then I pasted the HTTP's into a thread on a differnt forum.  For this forum, I went to the forum where I originally posted them and just copied the addresses and pasted them here.

What should I do to make this work?

BTW point of this thread is that the inside of the engine looks just as if I had been running D2 the whole time.

[Vincent Waldon]

Hi Steve:

Have you tried the instructions from the FAQ?  If so, are you getting stuck some place?  It looks like you're using the "web" link from Photobucket rather than the "image" link... ie the one that starts with IMG.

[SolarSteve]

I will check out the FAQ.  I can't do much with the pictures until I get to my home computer, so I will try to fix this later this evening.

Thank you

[SolarSteve]

Vincent

As I was looking at the FAQ for posting pictures I came across a link.  This link, like all the links I have tried on this site bring me to a TDI-IDI page that gives me this note inside of a box, center screen.

The new forum is online! www.vwdiesel.net/forum

What does this mean and why won't it bring me to the posted link?

Thank you

[rabbitman]

Those links your seeing worked before the forum got upgraded, now they have to be changed to work with this one, the mods and the original poster of the dead links is the only ones that can fix 'em.

[SolarSteve]

Unfortunately, those links are all over the place.  I'm sure the Mods don't have the time to fix all of them, there are a lot of them!

[lovinthedeez]

Whats it look like? I got 16,000+ miles under my belt of WVO on my TD

BTW point of this thread is that the inside of the engine looks just as if I had been running D2 the whole time.

wvo=d2=everythings aok

[Turbinepowered]

Okay, rather than going to "properties" for each image, put your mouse over the picture in your album. Underneath it a menu pops up, with several options. The one on the bottom says "IMG Code" with a yellow box beside it. Copy and paste what's in that box into your post, and the picture will appear when you post.

[SolarSteve]

Whats it look like? I got 16,000+ miles under my belt of WVO on my TD

If you have ever pulled the head off of one that has only run D2, that is what it looks like.  No gunk, no wads of carbon.  It sorta looks like the piston tops and the combution chamber? on the head were sprayed with a very dry coat of flat black spray paint.

I will try to get the pictures fixed around midnight tonight.

[maxfax]

I gotta see if I kept the pics from my HG job a year ago..   113,000 miles on WVO..   All looked good except the #1 Cyl which had a bad injector..   They were all rather overdue for a rebuild...

[SolarSteve]

OK guys, I got the pictures working!!  Please scroll to the first post to see them.

Thank you all for your help and patients!!

[SolarSteve]

I soaked the coolant out with paper towels imeadiately after the pictures and sprayed WD-40 in the cylinders.  Even though I changed the oil the day before this all went down, I will change it again before starting.  Thanks for the tip on the T-stat.  I really should change it while I am at it!

[burn_your_money]

Your motor is looking good. What method of heating/filtering do you use?

On an unrelated note, whenever anyone stumbles across a broken link, click the "report to moderater" button and the mods will get an email that links them right to that post. We can then quickly modify it to work