Hi Jim,

I have 2 the new o-ring (uppers: green ones) might as well replace both (2
bucks a piece.)  And yes I was just going to try it again.  I did not use
the Vaseline.  I looked at the o-ring that I had put in and I has a nick in
it.

The oil ring is a different problem; I must have broken it when I installed
the cylinders

Jere

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:12 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Head Update (getting worse)

Jere,

As you know I recently went through this, without the out-of-place
gasket problem you encountered.

More detail please? If I understand what you're saying, get another
o-ring and go at it again. I was advised to coat the o-ring with
vaseline and I had already spent an evening polishing the inside of the
head that captures the o-ring with a dremel tool and wire brush. If you
didn't do both of these things, you could have snagged the ring on some
crud.

If I'm misunderstanding what happened to you, give some more detail.

Later,

Jim

On Mar 5, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Jere Hawn wrote:

> Greeting all,
>
>
>
> If you have been following the upper cylinder o-ring blew and I
> decided to
> replace the heads while I was doing the job (engine had about 92K
> miles on
> it)
>
>
>
> I replace the heads, gaskets, adjusted the valves etc.. and she started
> right up and purred!!!  Then White smoke (steam) during test drive.
>
>
>
> Today I took the head off (only took 3.5 hrs.) and this is what I
> found:
>
>
>
>             The o-ring looks like it is good shape????
>
>
>
>             Part of the oil ring was in the coolant jacket :-( area
> (#$%$$#$)
>
>
>
> What to do??????????
>
>
>
> Jere
>