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Old 12-13-2006, 10:01 AM
GRIESL GRIESL is offline
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Originally Posted by thorsen View Post
If it was me, I'd pull the head and have a look. You're not going to be able to stick a camera in the glow plug hole and see the piston or valves, all you can see is the combustion chamber.

Best case sceanrio is new valves/guides/seals, and the head needs to come off for that. Worse case is burned piston/broken pistons, and the head has to come off for that, too.
I think I'm leaning in the direction of pulling the head and shipping it to Metric for a rebuild. But if I do that, will it be very evident what the problem is? Will I be able to identify a burned or holed piston with the head off? Or will I get everything buttoned back up only to find out the engine needs to come out?

Also, is the Haynes manual a good enough resource to guide me through the r&r?

Thanks everyone for all the good advice.
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