Have you pulled the spark plugs and tried to turn it over?  Maybe you've got
a cylinder full of coolant - a hydraulic lock.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> A couple of months ago I posted to the list about a Vanagon I have with a
> frozen engine.
> I poured Diesel several weeks ago into each cylinder and today I attached a
> towbar and with a friend drove around the neighborhood trying to break the
> cylindrs free. All that was accomplished is leaving rubber tire marks .
>
> This engine is really locked up, and I don't understand it.
> it ran fine when I got it in 2006, but then 3 days later it would not
> start  For the next year and a half, whenever I had the time, I would try to
> get it running, but nothing. It would just crank.
>
> So last summer, I replaced the CIS system( this is a conversion in a '82
> Diesel Vanagon with a 82 Scirocco engine.
> Not having the equipment or know-how to troubleshoot CIS, I removed that
> system and installed one that ran my Westfalia for 8 years, Digifant 2
> (88-92 Golf -Jetta)
>
> When I get that finished, then it would'nt crank. When I got a chance to
> work on it again later last fall, I pulled the starter and tested it- it
> did'nt work. Great-I had a good starter and I put it in. It still would'nt
> crank.
> Finally I put a breaker bar and socket on the crankshaft pulley, and even
> with a cheater pipe I could not break the engine free.
> So, now what?
> My friend thinks that maybe it had a head gasket leak that dumped coolant
> into one or more cylinders, and that it rusted up pretty good.
> That sounds logical.
> I freed a bug motor that was froze with a breaker bar and WD-40. That froze
> because water was entering thru the rear deck lid vents (the rain tray had
> been removed) and wetting the engine directly, seeping water into the the
> cylinders via the spark plugs.
>
> So before I  remove the head , any last ideas? Would it be better to try to
> pry with a large screwdriver thru the timing hole(Diesel bellhousing) ?
> Finally, if after I remove the head I see no evidence of a head gasket
> leak, can I safely tap on the cylinders with a wooden mallet, dead blow,
> etc? Maybe tha will break it free?
> never had this happen before on a Vanagon.
> Thanks
> Robert
> 1982 Westfalia
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Jake

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