Mine were JB Welded, then flycut.  Looked like it worked well, but I never
had the opportunity to use the heads.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Data Services" <dataservices@ATTBI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: leaky head gasket question again

> I imagine the JB weld was only used on the jugs/water jackets, not the
heads
> themselves.  Your heads should be flycut if they are pitted or warped. Not
> much is usually taken off (in thousands).  JB weld is then applied to the
> mating surface, which cannot be machined.
> Dave B
> 83 WBX Westy
> 63 Tiico Westy
> 59 SO4
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DaveC" <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: leaky head gasket question again
>
>
> > >I've had my 84 for about 18 months. It has 92k miles on it's 1.9L and
> last
> > >fall I replaced the gaskets. After what I went through getting the
> sleeves
> > >off the cylinder heads I'm sure that was the first time they had ever
> been
> > >off. I just cleaned them up and put them back on after a very tiny bit
of
> JB
> > >weld on one small area. 18 years on original gaskets does not seem bad
to
> > >me, you be the judge. It now runns perfectly.
> >
> > JB Weld in the head pits? This really works? How many others on this
> > list have used this technique?
> >
> > This would greatly lower the price of repair.
> >
> > Dave (on the cheap after ordering all that SA stuff...)
> > --
> > Dave Carpenter
> >
> > Whatever you wish for me,
> > May you have twice as much.
> >
> > "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think
> > we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C.
> > Clark
>