----- Original Message -----
From: "Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:35 PM
Subject: Diesel head issue... opinions?

> He said "what's that for?" pointing to the spacer.
>
> I told him it came off the old head, so I put it back on the rebuilt
> head.
>
> He said "Don't. There's your problem."
>
> So, I figure that if this is true, I can leave out the spacers and have
> at least five threads on the "bad hole" and seven on the other holes,
> given that the bolts seem to be two threads in (judging from the two I
> pulled up) right now, with the spacers installed.
>
> Is this a recipe for disaster, or proper diesel repair?

All I know is I left the spacers off when I put mine back on, and it went
fine.  Thankfully I had a friend who had already done a couple of these to
help, and since he'd never seen the spacers on any of them before he just
left them out.  I think the newer bolt design, as your parts guy indicated,
doesn't need the spacers.  With the spacers on I bet you weren't grabbing
enough threads.