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Re: [T3] Heads

On 27 Sep 2000, at 22:21, Herman Haustein wrote:

> I pulled my left head today , #3 was loosing compression , I thought it was
> the valve but it turns out to be blow-by , the engine must have overheated .
> I'm having it re-cut straight , but I'm worried about raising compression
> this way on one side, should I throw in a shim ?

Depends on how much you have to cut off the head. If it's only 
.010" then you could just grind away a little material from the 
combustion chamber, otherwise you should consider getting shims 
to go UNDER the cylinders.

Shims that go between the cylinder and the head are more 
common, but they are a bad choice because they put TWO sealing 
surfaces in the critical place where there would otherwise only be 
one.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054

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