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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: burn_your_money on October 20, 2006, 07:40:43 pm

Title: Nothing like a good DIY Top end rebuild
Post by: burn_your_money on October 20, 2006, 07:40:43 pm

Write up covers:
- Installing valves
- Installing valve springs
- Installing valve seals
- Installing cam / bearings
- Adjusting valves
- Installing injectors
- Installing glow plugs
- Installing valve cover studs (rubber gasket upgrade)
- Installing exhaust manifold studs

http://www.hasengeeks.com/projects.php?page=cylinder_head
Found here
http://vwpickups.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29

apparently they've been hacked. But you can still access the whole forum by using the "jump to" in the bottom right

Title: .....
Post by: Darkness_is_spreading on October 20, 2006, 11:20:58 pm

Awesome,  now I can reference against this for later use......

Title: Nothing like a good DIY Top end rebuild
Post by: HarryMann on October 22, 2006, 04:04:28 pm

.. and if you're in any doubt, valve 'keepers' are collets as in a 'collet' chuck, if you're reading on this side of the Atlantic.

Good and exhaustive writeup there, but it would take me most of that 2 hours to cut 8 valves in properly  :)

Title: Nothing like a good DIY Top end rebuild
Post by: burn_your_money on October 24, 2006, 07:10:27 pm

for better pictures, copy the image location top a new window and remove the .thumb