Mongler98
Top Post Dawg
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2011
- Location
- COLORADO (SE of Denver)
- TDI
- 98 Jetta TDI AHU 1.9L (944 TDI swap in progress) I moved so now i got nothing but an AHU in a garage on a pallet.
I am truly sorry for your loss, we have all been there when we made a wrong move that made things worse.
I am not trying to be mean by saying this but you did not listen to all of our advice on starting it up. oh well, another one bites the dust. My suspicion is that you had a head gasket failure, you warped the head and cylinder past its egg limits, too much blow by and oil consumption caused it to run away and that dominoed into a total failure.
A leak down test would have exposed this issue, there is a high chance that this was going to happen or you were going to find out that the block was fubard and in my opinion it was doomed and you blowing it up just caused you to have less work and $ in parts on an engine that was already ready for carnage.
again, i know it feels really sh!tty but feel relived that its over, you didn't spend more than you just lost. Maybe you can do a engine swap and have some fun with a new build!
Any chance you can upload some pictures and we can have a moment of silence internet style for the loss of another beloved TDI?
I am not trying to be mean by saying this but you did not listen to all of our advice on starting it up. oh well, another one bites the dust. My suspicion is that you had a head gasket failure, you warped the head and cylinder past its egg limits, too much blow by and oil consumption caused it to run away and that dominoed into a total failure.
A leak down test would have exposed this issue, there is a high chance that this was going to happen or you were going to find out that the block was fubard and in my opinion it was doomed and you blowing it up just caused you to have less work and $ in parts on an engine that was already ready for carnage.
again, i know it feels really sh!tty but feel relived that its over, you didn't spend more than you just lost. Maybe you can do a engine swap and have some fun with a new build!
Any chance you can upload some pictures and we can have a moment of silence internet style for the loss of another beloved TDI?