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On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:52, William Bold wrote: > Yes, you're right, the milage is pretty good . . . still, if it's any > indication, VW stopped "reconditioning" cases by line boring very early > on -- certainly they had THE BEST machining capability, and found it was > not practical to restore cases that had "grown" out of line. They were using line bored cases up until I quit working at the dealers in 1979. Don't know about after that. And a lot of the standard cases were old cases that were cut true and then bored back to standard bore. On those, you may see shims under the cylinders. to make up for the loss of width. They also bored the cylinders and installed oversized pistons. and oversized valve guides, and welded heads. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~