VW T5 'Restoration' Ep16 Cylinder Head Removal 1.9 TDI AXB Transporter Pressurised Coolant 

9:52 onwards - second cylinder from left at the top. Looks like it has been leaking directly into that cooling port

I watch ALOT of car related youtube channels, i haven't enjoyed a series like this one in a long time. Looking forward to the future of this channel! I have these all saved now for a future Transporter build myself haha Cheers dan. Love the work!

Hiya Dan. If the heads turns about to be stuffed. I've a axc head in my garage your welcome to have 👍

Spot on Dan,Haynes manual is the bible for the home mechanic, as you said why not, great content , always look forward to your journey with the T5.

Dan that coolant has spent more time out then in! 😂👌

Dan you keep smashing it I love watching the channel I now can call you a RU-vid just keep explaining anything you can and people will keep watching 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌

The man is a legend. Seeing his crafter build videos as well are insane, prompted me and my misses to start a build like this 👍🏼 Keep up the great work mate . Inspiration.

Good on you for doing this, I hated removing parts which I had only just replaced too try to rectify these problems. But once done you should be happy with the end result.

Fair play Dan! Fingers crossed the heads repairable after all this work! 🤞🏼

More great content mate, another step closer to VW heaven. Lol❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Loving the music on the time lapse bits.. Keep the t5 alive!!

You gave good patience lad , doing all that on the ground with no lift . 👍

Great series. Been there a few times with fixing stuff where you don’t know what been done to it in the past. Had a head on a old Toyota hiace done about 7 yrs ago at GNRS engineering in Coventry. Did a good job and know what they are doing. Also do head pressure tests. Keep up the good work👍

Blooming heck well through the hole it is then and may the force be with you ha, so no cooler then. Ok while you are in there check the metal pipe that comes out of the thermostat housing & it goes round the front of the block they rust like crazy check it out while you are there bud & good look I'll be watching ha👍

Good diagnoses all round, great work

Great series mate, your doing a fantastic job with this van. like others have said I noticed cylinder 2 has been blowing by into the water jacket.

Another great vid and music sundays cant get any better

Hokey Cokey coolant...put the coolant in, the coolant out, in out in out 😂...loving the channel mate, top work

Another great episode! You have that patience of a saint! Great work 👍

Excellent work once again and thank you

Genuinely one of my favourite channels at the moment.

I hope you have another project lined up for when this is finished. really liking this channel.

Don't skim the head dude, never skim pd heads. Just get it pressure tested and make sure the gasket is the same they come in 3 different thicknesses. One hole, two hole and three hole you'll see which it is on the little tab that sits proud of the head at the front left side. As long as you match them up it'll be fine.

Lovely Jubbly, you keep fighting this VW, and it keeps biting you back, stubborn thing.

Pot 2, top right, looks like it's been blowing into the cooling port. Seems to be mirrored on the head gasket. Manx Engines near Derby seem to get a good rep from various people...

Well done ,very informative ,thanks dude 🙏🏻

Steady work... looks like the head has been off at least once before (trying to find the same problem?), possible pattern gasket and it’s definitely had sealant spread over it. Check the waterways haven’t been contaminated, but once crack checked and skimming done a good clean and it should be good to go again. Great job 😎👍

Great video Dan! With jobs like this, it's good to find the 'smoking gun', ie the failure point. I would be scrutinising the head gasket between the pots and the water ways, before you clean anything up. Even the tiniest breach will cause major issues. White/ corroded deposits on the head face where the gasket fire ring sits are a dead giveaway. Always good to find the reason for the problems imo! Good luck!

Check the gasket for holes mate. When you renew a gasket and skim a head you put a thicker gasket on. It will usually have little holes punched into it. More holes=thicker gasket. 👍

Hay dan fantastic video as usual I have to confess I left in the middle to listen to gamma skies but I’m back now 🐩

Your smashing dude hope the heads ok but looking at the comments your ok for another if not TOP content mate as always looking forward to the next one

Quite common for these to need the block skimming rather than head gasket or head problem. my mates garage have done a few block skims after people have put gaskets and heads on and still same issue.

On the engine block Number 2 cylinder from the left very clearly blowing into the water jacket

the boost issue will be Egr stuck open due to carbon and boost presure will escape through EGR until the exhausts presure becomes more and stops boost leaking hence brief boots as it runs out.😉

Dan top work keep it up I’m from Leicester and looking for a place like that to do my van conversion

As someone else has commented, 2nd cylinder along on the mating face of the block, has a dark mark from cylinder to water jacket, compare it to cylinder 3, cylinder 3 has a silver ring round the bore as it's sealing, check the underside of the head gasket you removed at cylinder 2, your probably find its failed, you did show a dark mark that corresponds to the position of the leak Looks to me like the gasket has failed on cylinder 2 between block and gasket rather then head to gasket, getting the head skimmed is a pointless exercise, you need to inspect the mating surface of the block first

Thumbs up .... then watch, no brainer ! 👍

Google vts spares Leicester brilliant guys all they do is vw stuff , used them loads based in earl Shilton

Thank you for the video. can you tell me please how long it take you to fix it like how many hours like to open it and fix it back.thank you

Just hope the head its not cracked that would be expensive...great job 🔩🔧🔧💪

To be honest mate, unless you're looking at upping the boost, Id just use standard head bolts. Pd 150 bolts tend to be used in remapped high boost pds

Looks like somone has been there before and used a selant when bodging it back together. Clean the top of the block, flatten with a sharpening stone (plenty of videos on Utube),. Get a good (head gasket specific) selant to help with the block.

Hi Dan great video mate what was actually wrong with your engine to point towards the head

Great videos and information. I can’t help thinking, your life would have been easier sourcing a replacement engine. That way you could have refurbished the engine on the bench. Then done a straight engine swap. It’s would have been less information for the channel. However it would have given you an easier time. 🙂. Keep going mate your getting closer

Now Dan, loving following this and makes for good dinner break viewing! Can you give me an idea of how long it took you to take the head off?

Enjoy the videos mate! When you were hunting for this project van, did you venture to South Wales to look at my Blue T5? It was you or a doppelgänger 😂

Pull the thermostat stat and flush the block. Might be worth doing whilst you are waiting for the head to come back

Great video, i didnt think pd heads could be skimmed?

Love the videos...but are you throwing good money after bad at this motor mate?

Pot number 2 at the top looks like soot between cylinder and water channel

Very unusual to have a 1.9 pd head gasket go. But maybe its been messed with in the past

The coolant is out, but it’s not out out! 🤣

I have a potentially busted head gasket, got water in the engine oil and leaking coolant. First thing I'd need is a manual/specs on the engine. Any ideas where I could find one? Engine is BPC

Spyderlee had the exact same issue on his and turned out to be a warped head so possibly you have the same problem?

Did you leave the injectors in or did you remove them before taking the head off thanks

Great video but I have taken the 8 nuts off the exhaust manifold, disconnected the exhaust pipe but something else is holding it on. HELP!

Hello thanks could you tell us how long it took

Hey Dan, currently using your cylinder head removal process as guidance, as I have to remove mine on my 1.9L BRR engine to un-clog carbon (down to my own stupidity at pissing about trying to remove EGR valve, then intake manifold to clean, & knocking stuff down in ports & clogging centre valves). Haynes manual also proving to be seriously helpful...as well as pretty damn vague sometimes. Dan, did you have trouble trying to undo the turbo oil feed pipe union nut? Mine is pretty seized, & seems to be wanting to turn the fitting it screws on to (which itself is screwed into the top of turbo). Heat gun & WD on it not working yet (though has def helped on a few rusted n seized nuts elsewhere). Same for the other end Dan, did you struggle to undo feed pipe union nut at the block under oil filter casing? Need to get beyond it to crack on. I'm sure you've hit a multitude of snags yourself in your time! Very much appreciated Dan, your whole Restoration series has really helped in my own panel van to kombi conversion.

Loving the videos. Wish I had the space to give something like this a go. Question tho what is the track at about 7.45????? I've been trying to work it out. I have found the original but not this remix!!!

That gasket doesn’t look right,looks like it’s be leaking for a long time,and like you said,someone as added gasket fix in to the van before

That 21mm turbo oil pipe nut underneath it is a bugger

Ii was wandering if it low compression in the cylinders due to wear and tear?

The name of the aerosol resting on the windscreen sounds like the massage parlour my mum works at

Try putting a straight edge across it and make sure it's not warped

Salutari, stie careva ce cod motor au motoarele de 2.0tdi cr montate pe T5-uri?

Could just fit a PD130 engine instead? From a Bora etc

Put a PD in it Dan

100% you can see it’s been blowing into water jacket.

That vaccum line is realy bugging me (the one to the barke booster) it's realy easy to remove.

2nd cylinder from left looks like it’s been leaking. At the top

Aw engineering in Darwin think he does on exchange no sure but only works on VW

Gasket looks super flat. Maybe sealant added and over torqued (to hide the leak). Turned into a bit of a money pit this t5 eh? Theres still profit in there for you hopefully tho.

Who is so stupid to dislike the video 🙄

Wow,, Dan, that's some serious time+money on this vehicle,, I've done this many times, to many vehicles.. Man, it would of been quicker+and less money just to swap the engine,, and with less miles on one.. I get the body work etc etc, but man the time+money+effort then to finally strip the head off just doesn't make any sense to me, when there are cheaper+better alternatives... Good video tho..

Helooo sir

My T4 has 5 cylinders, so there is your problem right there, you have lost a whole cylinder !!

100% you can see it’s been blowing into water jacket.