Very good restoration video. It would get more interesting if you put a turbocharger on that diesel engine I'm doing that on my vw mk1 caddy. I hope to see more videos of this restoration, greetings from El Salvador.
I had a turbo diesel 1.6 mk2 golf and they are bad ... They love to boil the water, wrap the cylinder head, fry the gasket... My goal is to have the cleanest 1.6 NA diesel in Romania ! Slow but no boiling water up the hill XD. It would make more sense to swap the engine for a 1.9 turbo diesel if you eant some turbo action !
@@upcyclethepastutp9901 I understand, but regarding the head this is understandable, but they say that when removing the crankshaft, they also need to be replaced with new ones
It's the same paint i used on the other parts where i used compressed air, but the block is super heavy to move it around while painting so i chose to aply it with a paint brush with two thic layers if paint
Great video! Question: Were you re-using the original crankshaft bearings? I noticed you did not go through the process of using plasti-guage when installing the bearings and was wondering why.
Why on God's green earth would you grease a soft plug????? Exactly opposite of ANY common sense. Leave the back frost plug OUT until after you install the int. shaft. Why? Because you can use your finger to aid in placement of the shaft (when it slides in) and therefore avoid scarring that back int. shaft bearing face. The problem with painting one of these blocks black is that it makes detecting origin of leaks difficult. If you were concerned with particles of sand/metal on the journals, why the hell did you not use the carb cleaner to spray out the journal passageways? If you go to the extent of spending on new pistons, you sure as hell do NOT want to re-install new piston pins in old piston pin bushings. New pins needed to be installed and very accurately honed to fit the new pins. This is NOT a matter of cornholing a low-horsepower engine with all these shortcuts, it is a matter of right and wrong and longevity following the build. Additionally, the conn rods should have been reconditioned and new bearings installed. And, the top compression ring should be very carefully placed 180 degrees OPPOSITE of the exhaust valve and the 2nd compression ring installed 180 degrees off THAT gap. More cornhole shortcuts. You rammed that int. shaft into the hole with no regard to whether or not you were scarring that back bearing. This is why the back soft plug should have not been installed until AFTER int. shaft placement. Additionally, have you never heard of a thing called assembly lube instead of fingering on some oil what you HOPE will still be there when you start turning that engine over the first time.
