[T3] Engine fixed on the squareback

["Martinez, Leon" <martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil>]

Well I got new pistons, cylinders and rings to replace my 
holey piston . Yeah everyone tells me that what caused the 
hole in the piston was a item that fell in or was sucked up.
Maybe the crunching noise I heard weeks ago was inside the 
combustion chamber and not in the fan assembly like I thought.
I never mentioned this. Could have been a loose screw or something 
that got sucked up, I wonder how it got in there, maybe the 
lack of paper filter coupled with high speed engine suction,
something got in . I speculated alot in the last e-mail 
but will never know for sure.

Well what is important is that I am driving it again . The 
odometer is at 28000 so I can count the miles for this new
upper end that includes the headsd, the heads did not 
need replacing but they were mismatched. The bottom end has 
around 50000 I guess . 

 The head temps are a little higher than before on the #3 
head area but just a tad bit, I think the new parts and the 
different head (bigger valves , not lawnmower size but still 
Mexican VW heads). On # 1 head area the temps are colder 
than the MOFOCO almost stone cold for these cars , I see
200 degrees F alot maybe after ring seating the temps will 
go lower. I do have all of the cooling flaps installed.

The engine idles very slowly in "drive" without missing, I 
like that , it has good power for new parts , break in period 
for the top end will be until the rings fully seat. I am 
very satisfied with this fix but I must make the charging system 
reliable.


LEON MARTINEZ

SAN DIEGO AND TIJAUNA

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