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Is it a AHU block?

I found that this other engine is not the same so it's back to rebuilding mine. I need to find a place that sells oversize pistons and rings. Jack says they don't have any. Does anyone know where to find them?

My M3 99 Jetta TDI burned up a piston. I found a TDI that's supposed to be out of a 99 or 2000 Beatle that someone changed the timing belt wrong and belt some valves. I was going to look inside the cylinders with a bore scope to see if it looks ok. Will it fit in mine? How do I tell exactly what yea...

I found a TDI that's supposed to be out of a 99 or 2000 Beatle that someone changed the timing belt wrong and belt some valves. I was going to look inside the cylinders with a bore scope. Will it fit in mine? How do I tell exactly what year it is and if it's what I need? It had a cast valve cover an...

Can you pull the engine by itself or need to pull engine/tranny together? That's what a chilton's manual says.

Does this block have sleeves?

I just came in from taking the head off. I found the # 4 piston top completely ate up and galled to the cylinder wall and head like a cap so when the piston came up to almost top dead center, it was hitting on it's melted material stuck to the head and wall. That's what the material was on the injec...

I pulled the injectors out of 1 & 4 and I put compressed air with the valves closed and # 1 piston will move back down in the cylinder, # 4 won't and I hear air bypassing there too so it looks like a valve in # 4 is the problem. How much of a job is it to pull just the head or is it just as easy...

I just bought a wrecked early 99 Jetta TDI. It was a light roll over in a ditch and I got it home and tried to start it and heard a loud knocking in the engine and it started and I shut it right off because it was a solid type of knock. I took the pan off and didn't see anything in the lower end tha...