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KotaSarver Samba Member
Joined: November 21, 2012 Posts: 28 Location: Bremerton
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:36 am Post subject: Really don't want to buy a new motor... |
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My 1982 diesel rabbit has been in the shop for a lil while. They broke the dowel pin while performing a new head gasket replacement. They say are having real trouble finding a dowel they broke and i was getting on here to see if anyone knew where i could get one...Thanks guys |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12815 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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What dowel pin did they break? The little sleeve that goes around the head bolt? _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12815 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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If it looks like this one, then these are still in use in most VW engines. You could order it from VW or go to a local salvage yard & get it out of a block someone has already yanked the head off of. Most of the earlier blocks didn't have guide sleeves or pins, you had to use a special pin (a cut down head bolt with a slot cut into it so you could unscrew it with a long flat blade & remove it with a small magnet) to hold the gasket in place while you positioned the head. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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