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• Exhaust fun never ends
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:14:51 -0700
  ...Cylinders #1 and #4 have each had both studs replaced with bolts, and despite my fears of dealing with the dreaded exhaust studs it...
• Re: <no subject>
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:04:01 -0700
  ...If the cylinders are leaking at the base from either case > distortion or loose studs, (another failure) you can bet the heads are > leaking...
• Re: Air bubbles in coolant 2.1 wbx
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:18:53 -0700
  ...An archive post suggested that 'when under load' a head can lift off the cylinders and allow a leak between cylinder and head. Since...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - small job getting bigger - please advise as to rings, valves, etc.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:12:44 -0700
  ...STUDS (there is visible rust on 50% - engine has MANY MILES), both head gaskets, etc. But that got me into this logic: remove cylinder...
• Coolant...
  Historical mailing list - Jim & Lisa Arnott
  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:38:01 -0700
  ...Engines running the right stuff have little or no rust on the studs, and correspondingly less pitting of the cylinder heads in the area...
• Re: Remove Broken Stud: Web Page
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:18:27 -0700
  ...Remove Broken Stud: Web Page > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Monday, October 24, 2011, 9:03 AM > > > That stud should not have been...
• Re: Removing Rusty Exhaust System
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:50:04 -0400
  ...Then after the stud breaks off flush with cylinder head: machine flat, drill out and helicoil :) -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon...
• Re: Rebuild longevity
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:48:42 -0700
  ...New (not rebuilt) heads and valves New lifters New cam Top quality new pistons, rings and cylinders, matched and assembled Rebushed, balanced (matched) and...
• Bus depot exhaust system junk?
  Historical mailing list - greg rich
  Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:03:19 MDT
  ...The front pipe will not go over the cylinder head studs for the pipe, and I tried a used pipe and it will not...
• Re: Stuck Head
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:18:07 -0700
  ...I then noticed that all of the studs can be moved about a > bit in the head, except for one, which seems to be...
• Re: OT: how to check Bug engine is a 1.3 or 1.6 externally
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:36:29 -0800
  ...Intake Ports on the Head: 40HP - Studs are vertical, straight up. 1300-1500-1600 - Studs are at angle (about 15 to 20 degrees) Barrel...
• compression tests-- good enough?
  Historical mailing list - Brian W. Block
  Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:47:14 -0700
  ...Well,today I went in and for the heck of it re-torqued the cylinder head stud bolts, to 20 N/m as specified...
• Re: GEX Vanagon Engines-where to get a good engine
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:21:14 -0700
  ...heads and a better piston-cylinder set or even rings. New heads, upgraded valves? How is the case align bored? Are the head studs...
• Re: Cleaning/Checking Cylinder Head Question Follow Up
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Thu, 6 Feb 2014 01:28:40 +0000
  ...cylinder head by hand. > heads off in the van : > it's all about Patience.. > and Attention to Detail... > and not busting rusted exhaust studs...
• Re: Trouble getting WBX piston out
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:52:27 -0400
  ...I also use a bit of lapping compound and lap the cylinders into the heads to get the top of the cylinders really clean...
• Re: 2.2 into a 1.9 case
  Historical mailing list - George Laubach
  Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:48:33 -0500
  ...a set of air cooled >>> cases could make the studs that fasten the cylinders & heads to the cases >>> strip. We used to install a...
• Re: General engine bolt/nut sizes
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:19:42 -0500
  ...cylinder-to-case surface problems, cylinder-to-head problems, main bearing studs with sealing nuts, staked rod nuts, oil pump sealing nuts, or head...
• Re: Water Cooler System Design Flaw Workaround?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:45:10 -0700
  ...I think that head...........a cast iron head too... was held down with 20 studs with nuts on top of the studs. Looking at...
• Head sealants??
  Historical mailing list - Elliot Kane
  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:55:49 -0800
  ...I'm also wondering if I should be putting something on the case-end threads of the new head studs I'm installing as...
• Re: Need advice inner cylinder sealing ring
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:31:38 -0700
  ...So now I have a beautiful new set of cylinder head studs in my case. Two of the old ones apparently were marginal. Harald...
• Re: exaust removal
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Mon, 2 Jul 2007 23:55:31 -0700
  ...head off and remove the exhaust flange and this gives me a short stud to hammer on and grab with my favorite stud removal...
• Re: coolant overflow fears and thoughts
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 9 May 2013 22:54:02 -0400
  ...A broken stud will mean head and cylinder removal. If a stud breaks close to the case you are looking at a full teardown...
• Re: Head sealants??
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:22:27 EST
  ...I'm also wondering if I should be putting something on the case-end threads of the new head studs I'm installing as...
• Re: KEP Plate Remove Transmission
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:17:09 -0800
  Flywheel sticks out past plate, so yes. <scratches head> Hmmmm...... So if one tried to remove plate+tranny as a unit, the plate would...
• Re: Front outer CV on Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:47:24 +0000
  ...I stripped the upper #4 cylinder head threads for the exhaust. (A mechanic said to remove and check my thermostat's opening temperature with...
• Re: Coolant Leak at Cylinder Head Cap Nut
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Sat, 30 Oct 1999 06:12:42 EDT
  ...Mourkas" <mourkas@TELPLUS.NET> writes: >On my 87 Syncro I appear to have a coolant leak at the #7 cylinder >head >cap nut, rearmost...
• Re: Smoke after head replacement
  Historical mailing list - Gregg Carlen
  Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:10:44 -0500
  ...When I installed the head after replacing the gaskets, I was rushing the job and the cylinder sealing rings slipped down and out of...
• Re: Sure. . . Summary: Re: How hard is it to remove exhaust?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Steele
  Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:54:29 -0400
  ...therefore hitting the nut on it's top > > surface with the cylinder head acting as a support. >> > > Given enough room? Dear God, I would...
• Re: [T2] A cc'ing the heads question-answered
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:09:04 -0600
  ...heads pull down tighter when they get hot even if the steel stressed head studs are good. I've had three sets of cylinders...
• Re: coolant in oil
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:05:55 -0500
  ...The second thing is when I did the head job, the number 4 cylinder started to come out with the head< I was able...
• Re: leaking on the pavement, this won't help.
  Historical mailing list - Milo's Kitchen
  Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:22:30 -0500
  ...the heads is if for some reason the head nuts were marginally torqued in the first place (dirty stud threads, hydro locked head nuts...
• Re: Stripped threads in cylinder head, to fix?, now?, how?
  Historical mailing list - Mladen, Zoran
  Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:30:19 -0700
  ...Stripped threads in cylinder head, to fix?, now?, how? Right-o! IIRC the 8mm x 1.25 Keen-sert requires a 12mm x 1...
• Re: Coolant Overpressurization / Head Gasket Leak
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:02:47 -0500
  ...Internal leaks between the tops of the cylinders and heads are really due to failure of the studs to keep the heads down under...
• Re: 2.1 ring recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 27 May 2009 06:19:08 -0400
  ...It looks like a very well taken care of motor, the water jacket and head studs show ZERO signs of corrosion. I was told...
• Cooling System Warning Light
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:57:13 +0000
  ...The pressure maintains contact and prevents localized vaporization which also causes cylinder and head stud cavitation erosion. Not as much and issue for the...
• Re: To compress or to remove wrist pin - A Poll
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:51:35 -0400
  ...In fact, I >> once had a cylinder that wouldn't separate from the head no matter what >> I tried (until I got it off...
• Re: Leaking head nut
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:36:00 -0700
  ...If ever there was a cylinder head system that requires pretty meticulous workmanship ...it's waterboxers.. but the nuts and goop are not the...
• Re: Vanagon Head Leaking Around The Head Nut(S)
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:14:11 -0400
  Jeff, a new head, two new upper cylinder metal gaskets, reuse all of the other stuff you just bought, about 10 hours of work...
• Re: Vanagon Cylinder Head Gasket video I just made
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 8 Mar 2014 21:12:39 -0500
  ...Vanagon Cylinder Head Gasket video I just made Ken, Thanks very much for posting this, as my Vanagon is sitting just a few feet...
• Re: Exhaust fun never ends - some progress
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:32:33 -0400
  These steel nuts in the aluminum heads have a way of becoming one! If there is enough stud to get a nut threaded then...
• Re: Coolant pouring from tail pipe - 1987 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:54:38 -0600
  ...defects in the metal Or a pulled or broken head stud that filled a cylinder up with liquid (but if it did this, it...
• Re: cylinder head
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 21 May 2023 19:50:56 -0400
  ...cylinder head >> >> Greetings all, >> I have been lurking for years but have enjoyed the List and once in awhile >> I get a chance to...
• warm up and coolant pressure on head gasket seals
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:15:58 -0800
  ...in that it's cylinders are not cast into the block. The result is that the steel head studs are extremely long. Steel expands...
• Re: off with her heads
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:52:52 -0500
  ...Then, I had to pull the head off with the cylinder after days of trying and prying. I ended up standing on the head...
• Re: Stuck Head
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:58:53 -0700
  ...I then noticed that all of the studs can be moved about a > > bit in the head, except for one, which seems to be...
• Re: Coolant in the oil?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Lamb
  Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:48:57 -0800
  ...case between the water jacket and the base. > Or a broken head stud that is allowing coolant into the valve cover area. > Either way...
• Re: 1.9L WBX Compression Test Question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:11:55 -0500
  ...So he did a compression test on the cylinders. Results were interesting and I would welcome recommendations for further study or repair: the two...
• Re: Head advice
  Historical mailing list - Rico Dagastino
  Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:18:54 EST
  I was able to remove and repair a cracked cylinder head with the engine still in the van by following the following procedure to...
• Re: Stainless Steel Exhaust Fasteners
  Historical mailing list - Karl Hartmut Filc
  Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:52 -0500
  ...in the stud being broken off . > > Have you ever tried drilling a broken exhaust stud out of an aircraft > cylinder head and installing a...
• Re: Aircooled Cylinder Head Temps - first observations
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:04:15 -0600
  When I had a 79 loaf with engine mods, I mounted the sending unit"ring" on the #3 exhaust stud and figured I'd...
• Re: 2.1 Head Replacement for Dummies
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda - Personal email
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:04:31 -0700
  ...If anyone has a way to bend the laws of physics > in order to get the exhaust header studs out, please > let me know...
• Re: Check my head?
  Historical mailing list - Sheilah Rogers
  Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:53:38 -0800
  ...When > you retorque an old head there is a good possibility that the head will > crack externally near the head stud hole. Now you...
• Re: Ohh those VW gods...billowing blue smoke.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:36:06 -0700
  ...Ohh those VW gods...billowing blue smoke. >> | >> | >> |> Jack got it right...a corroded head stud packed it in - the stud >> |> between # >> |> 3 >> |> & 4 cylinder...
• Vanagon brakes and Vanamoneygon
  Historical mailing list - Victor Valenti
  Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:05:42 -0800
  ...One look at the motor and I clearly knew�the cylinder head nut and stud had blown out! The dreaded electrolysis had struck again...
• Re: freshly rebuilt 1600DP running VERY HOT!
  Historical mailing list - bill (w.r.) crick
  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:08:00 -0400
  ...I'm talking about the ones that snap in between the studs and cause air that flows down between the cylinders to be diverted...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage-head gasket
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 5 Apr 2012 20:49:13 -0400
  ...Now for the sludge in parts of the system and the pitting on the outside of the cylinders or the erosion on the studs...
• Re: Head sealants??
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Fri, 11 May 2007 13:32:40 -0700
  ...It has aluminum block and heads as well. Of course A Volvo can be a totally different thing although it has 6 wet cylinders...
• Re: Good local mechanic worked on my 85
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Mon, 10 May 2010 22:04:58 -0500
  ...The very minor was a lengthwise split about 2 inches from the head and extending for about an inch and a half. That was...
• Re: helicoils, stripped threads
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:15:23 -0500
  ...Just start screwing the helicoil into the exhaust flange, and continue turning it into the cylinder head. Then re-install a stock sized stud...
• Re: Ohh those VW gods...billowing blue smoke.
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:03:30 -0700
  Jack got it right...a corroded head stud packed it in - the stud between # 3 & 4 cylinder failed and which needs to be drilled...