Right, the little diesel wears out all its bearing very un-uniformly, no
doubt because of the tremendous strain of three times the compression ratio
of gas cars.
Jim

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

>
>
> I know, I  wrote that because you wrote :
>
> " I have seen a couple of the main bearings, and they look fine. Cam
> bearings, however, were showing copper. It was copper uniformly, not the way
> that you see the 1.6 diesel show copper part of the way around when the
> bearings wear out, but solid copper."
>
> Reading it quickly looks like you are referring to copper showing on diesel
> cam bearings,
> but you must be referring to copper showing on diesel rod bearings, though
> that's not completely clear.
>
> scott
>
>
> Jim Felder wrote:
>
>
>>
>> There are no cam bearings in vw diesel engines, unless someone
>> retro-fitted a set to save a head.
>> The cam runs in the aluminum head  on VW diesel engines, with aluminum cam
>> bearing caps.
>>
>
>  Right... this is a waterboxer.
>
>  Jim
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