[T3] Trouble home from Bugorama

[Dave Hall]

If you were burning that much oil rather than leaking it before you got a
tow, I would suspect a piston or rings problem rather than a burned valve,
though I would expect visible smoke as you drove.  None of the plugs look as
they should, so I suspect there's a problem that was making it run rich,
maybe the voltage regulator, to give you the 18mpg. That might have begun
working properly to give you the 24mpg you found later, though figures on a
single fill are always a bit suspect.

There's not much point trying to remove a head with the engine in.  It's
much easier and less likely to go wrong working on it with the engine out.
At least with a recent rebuild, it should come apart easily!

Why wouldn't you contact the engine builder, at least to ask his opinion?  I
would expect an experienced engine builder to want to know there's been a
problem, if only to guard against it next time.

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
On Behalf Of Jacob Adam Schroeder
Sent: 13 September 2015 01:54
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Trouble home from Bugorama

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Daniel K. Du Vall <dduvall at 1peter4-10.org>
wrote:

> You can always pull the head on the side that has no compression. It 
> can be done with the engine in the car you have to remove the tin and 
> a few other things over that side. But then again no compression I 
> hate to say is never a good thing.
>
>
If I am going to pull that head I might as well drop the engine so it'll be
easier work.  I guess I am still in shock and was hoping that there is an
easy explanation as to why I could be reading zero PSI on cylinder 2 or that
there was something to "check" before I dropped the engine to pull the head.
I do not think that there is.

I only have 1000 miles on the engine and taking it back to the engine
builder is not an option.
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