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- having tasted the beauty of ARP studs, no VW diesel head of mine will ever go back on without studs. pull the head 4 times and the studs are almost paid for. the certainty of the torque process paid for them the first use anyway. this new head has been off twice now and i should've had the studs ...

Final torque on headbolts. I've been using a torque wrench and watching the needle. Let's me see when it's in the stretch zone because the needle stays steady, doesn't increase in value. Seems like that's somewhere near 100lbft I thought about doing that but didn't, I just used a breaker bar for th...

Fatmobile wrote:
#5 There's a check valve in the return line, back by the fuel level sender.
That can get plugged.

Thanks for the tip. Is it inside the tank, on top of the tank or somewhere by the fuel/water separator? I haven't looked in the Bentley yet.

Sounds like you are striding along with confidence 8) . Re the carbon buildup above the rings, assuming its evenly deposited, I'd leave it there as it improves compression, and new rings will prevent bore scoring. Remember for best chance of setting rings to highest compression, set compression rin...

If you want to balance the pistons that you notched, just weigh each and remove a small amount of material until they are all very close or identical. Can use a kitchen style digital scale with .1 gram increments ideally. I did this with my connecting rods when I had everything apart. CarlosA, Than...

So I bought these Volvo pistons off eBay last year........... I bought my first 1.6 VW (turbo) in Nov. 2010 (160,000 miles and non-operating odometer), found this site, read Haggar's Saga and started to learn. I can definitely tell you regulars on here know what your talking about...from experience....

O.K., it worked.

I've been on this forum for over 2 years and have found nearly every answer without having to ask a question. Now it's time I add something and maybe ask a few questions.

J.D.

The main purpose of this post is to make sure I can upload pictures. Once I know it'll work I'll give the whole story on this re-ring job and piston modification. I just want to make sure the thing runs before giving the whole story. I'll have it operational this weekend. http://img546.imageshack.us...

Hagar, I've read up through page 95 and must say my understanding of diesel's has increased significantly. I bought my '85 1.6 TD Jetta in November 2010 and have tuned and adjusted using your "I do it this way" advice since then. I'm up to 40mpg and I drive 75mph on a 200 mile commute once...

Nice link to that Chinese pump site. It may be useful for my purpose and certainly looks interesting in terms of individual parts.

I've read 75 pages of Hagar's post and understand the LDA spaceship thing, so thanks for clearing up the ADA/LDA resemblance.

I'm ready to disassemble one of these!!!

Is there a way to determine if an IP is for a turbo based on either the VW part number or the Bosch part number? I want to purchase a used IP for a 1.6TD so I can practice working on it prior to pulling mine off my running car. There's always a few on ebay but hard to tell if they're for a turbo. Th...

Hi Hagar, I was going to read the entire post before replying but just jumped to the end and now see what's going on with you. It's taken me about three weeks of late night reading to get to page 64!! I've cut and pasted into a Word Doc all that I feel is important to me and will organize it by topi...