If I may offer this: The reason I asked about your head gasket is because you did as I suspected. Just my $.02 here on your work....but when you loosened the nuts, you should have removed the head, re-annealed the copper gasket, and reinstalled and torqued. Once the torque is removed from copper, it will not properly reseal (combustion pressures)unless it is replaced with a new one, or annealed to soften it back up. In a turbo motor such as yours, this is imperative because of the increased combustion temps.
Again, just my $.02 from years of building air cooled stuff... If you want to know of a good annealing process, I'd be gld to offer. Scott --- Orma <o...@aviation-mechanics.com> wrote: > Yes, burned under the copper gasket and eventually > through the copper > gasket. I'm going to talk to my VW guy today and > have him look at the > head.. The color of the deposits in the head, look > to be on the lean side. > The gas escaped at the top. Which is where I had > removed the nuts to > install the cht senders. There was torque on the > nut, when I went to remove > them, it's just that the gas escape pattern suggests > that there was > looseness at the top. With the turbo putting more > pressure on the engine, > the problem may be other. When I get back to the > plane today, I'm going to > play with the other head and see what the torque is > like on that side. > > Orma > Southfield, MI > KR-2 N110LR 1984 > See Tweety at http://www.kr-2.aviation-mechanics.com > See other KR spces at > www.kr-2.aviation-mechanics.com/krinfo.htm > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/
