You suggest we are being taken for a ride but not why? Is it rubbish to suggest that rebuilding the head of the engine is not sensible/ will cause an imbalance therefore it should be all or nothing?tinakersting wrote:At least taken for a ride is transport of some kind!T25Convert wrote:tinakersting wrote:Well it seems that the rocker arms on the side of the engine that have not been changed have damaged valves due to the rockers being too tight and there is some compression on the side where the nut fell off but it is low. The mechanic says if he has to renew the cylinder heads on the side with the damaged valves it will mean the lower half of the engine will have undue pressure on it so that would need to be rebuilt. He had quoted a sum of three thousand pounds to recondition the whole engine. He dosent do log though so even more to get that reinstalled we are very sad
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I think you might be being taken for a ride.
Did it run okay before the nut fell off?
The thing is I am not mechanically minded at all we have learned the hard way that owning a t25 if you are not a mechanic or a hobby enthusiast IS expensive. Either that or none of the various mechanics we have used have been very interested in doing a decent job
The jist of this latest episode is that two weeks ago as I was shutting the engine off having driven from leiston to lowestoft my partner noticed a rattling noise never previously heard coming from the engine. Not knowing if we were causing Any damage and not wanting to chance any further damage we called the rac.
The chap used his long screwdriver as a stethescope(old school apparently) and after removing the driver side rocker cover the nut from one of the adjuster screws fell out onto the tarmac.
We were recovered to a garage in norwich.
When the mechanics inspected the engine they told us that the rocker adjusters had been left too tight by the person who had last adjusted them and some of the rocker arms were damaged and needed replacing. THEY were not able to source the parts.
I asked on the forum on Sunday and a member offered a compatible set complete which I took to them on wednesday
BY Thursday they reported that having changed the rockers on the side that cast the nut there was no compression in ANY of the engine valves.We found this hard to believe. Prior to the nut shedding we had never had a problem with power.
Today the mechanic says that the valves on the other side have been damaged by the too tight rockers and one valve is even in danger of falling down through the damaged collar which has been damaged over time. HE SAYS if he reconditions this top part of he engine it will more than likely cause the lower untouched side of the engine to fail fairly quickly hence he suggests he totally reconditions the whole engine or we purchase a newly reconditioned engine which he would put in for about three thousand pounds.
We do not know what to do. A member suggests a second opinion, are there any vw mechanics who know their t25s in Norwich who we could have the van transported to to give us that second opinion?
THIS mechanic has given a lot of time to us this week but has no other practical options for us.
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