Tin
removal before heads are seperated from the cylinders
Pull!
This
is what the inside of my heads looked like. Burnt. The valve guides were
as black as night, the exhaust studs were mangled. The cylinders were
stuck to the heads. Took heat and few blows from a rubber mallet to divorce
this couple.
Pistons
were caked with what I assume is years of carbon build-up.
Valves
and the seats were disgusting.
Heads
will be re-furbished with new seats, valves and studs.
Rods
were rusty
Oil
pump removal. Plan to replace with a Melling Heavy Duty unit.
Crank
and cam removal. Crank was cleaned and measured and found to be in good
shape and within tolerance.
The
cam was severely worn on all 4 lobes. This I hear is quite common on Type4's....so
I will be ordering a brand new one with matching lifters.
The
inside of my 162,000 mile engine was completely covered in a film of burnt
oil and gunk. It ma take hours to clean this pig up.
Bearings
removed and inspected. LOL. Most of my bearings had a very nice brass
color to them...severely worn.
cam
bearing
This
is the rods after hours of polishing with a bench grinder and a dremel
to remove 24 years of use. They will be going to the machine shop for
a once-over.