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No problem! Glad to see it's in good hands. I only wish it was MY hands...

Enjoy! WA cars, unlike Kanadian cars, are rust-free... should be no bondo on this baby.

After my rebuild it took awhile for oil pressure to come up. That cam is way up there, and you've got filters and pickup tubes and galleys to fill first. Prime it as others have described, or just do as I did -- dump a bunch of oil all over the cam, and run it till it comes up. Remember most of the ...

I too have been wondering this. My car has a Brazilian head on it now, which I had rebuilt when I built this engine, but I have a good low-mile German head now and am wondering which one I should use when I finally build a proper engine in a few years (current one is just a re-ring, bottom end has 2...

Yeah that engine doesn't look too good. Seems pretty worn out. When you're already that far in, I think it would be a waste of a headgasket and headbolts to put that thing back together. It's not gonna start right and quit burning oil until you bore it out and get a set of rings and pistons in it. P...

If you don't have AC and your radiator fan is running while you're going down the road, you have cooling issues, unless you're climbing a hill. Your fan should not need to run while running down the highway. Right, I was just driving in hilly terrain and if I maintain 65-70 when climbing big hills ...

Yep, they exist, made from 83 to 84. Want one? There's one that shows potential to be a REALLY nice car for sale right now an hour from Seattle, which is only a day from you...

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/car/593070619.html

Timing and air in the fuel could cause smoke and bad running, but they couldn't cause oil consumption. When you say burning oil like no tomorrow, do you just mean that it's smoking a lot, or are you actually seeing the oil go away at a high rate? Also, was it smoking and drinking oil before the head...

Or leave it run while fueling. :D Did that one time that day... stupid, stupid I had unplugged the radiator fan because I didn't want it to draw on the batt, figured if I was moving at highway speed I could always regulate temp by backing off the pedal if it started to run warm rather than relying ...

Wow, just caught this thread, what an epic voyage. We need to hear the end of this. Hopefully you and the car are both safe and on your way home... What's the back story on this trip? I identify very closely with being stuck in the middle of absolute-gone-to-hell-nowhere in an old German diesel car ...

Do you have a running/driving manual-transmission Audi 5000 TD? If so I would be interested, trying to eventually do a 4000Q TD swap and need this engine but would take the whole car as a driver till the right 4000 shell came along. Let me know --

George

Unless you have an oil cooler that is connected to the cooling system, like on a TD, there is only one place the oil comes close to the coolant -- the passages through the head gasket. Most likely the gasket is just bad, because that happens pretty commonly on these engines, but if this is a chronic...

I have an NA core motor and head that I am going to rebuild...and I think I am gonna put a turbo on as well, without doing the whole aneriod pump and piston squirters thing. I basically just want an ecodiesel; my main reasons are I want less smoke at WOT, and maybe a tad more power with lower EGTs (...

I had a similar problem on my Rabbit when I first got it. Replaced the clutch cable and it went away for about a month, then it came back again. I did some investigation and discovered that the cable housing was being cut into where it passes over the brake booster, right after the firewall. The fla...

Well, I replaced the alternator with another NAPA rebuild, and the problem seems basically solved for now. NAPA does a horrible job on these rebuilds -- I'm going to have to replace this one again I can tell, because the bearings are already squeaking. But it does charge, reading about 13.4v when ru...

OK, I cleaned the battery terminals, and actually replaced the entire negative cable with a new one because the old one was stiff and corroded. No change, still not charging at all. Re-reading rwest1's earlier post, I realized that my low charging voltage might actually have been normal, because on ...