Mark,
If everything else is working fine, why not replace the engine completely?
At a minimum, I'd replace it with the 81K mi engine. Have you spec'd out
the cost of a new engine? It's the Audi 5 cyl, right?
Steve
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kumler [mailto:kumler@...]
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 5:56 AM
To: ev_update@...
Subject: [ev_update] is it worth replacing an engine?
I was driving my '93 MV from southern California to the S.F. Bay
area, where I intended to leave it with in-laws while I headed off to New
Zealand for a year. It was a hot (*very* hot) day, but the van had
recently had a major tune, was performing wonderfully as usual, and I
plowed through the Central Valley with the AC on. After a lengthy lunch
break (when the engine should have cooled down a bit), I hit the road
again. But within 10 minutes the AC faded, I lost considerable power, and
I barely made it off the highway before a t-valve in the cooling system
blew and -- as I would later learn -- the head was irreparably damaged.
My boys loved the ride in the tow truck and the unexpected Sunday
(or
course) evening in a hotel pool, but I hated the news the next day that it
would be several days and several hundred dollars, at a minimum. After
several trans-Pacific phone calls and nearly 8 weeks, I hear that it'll be
$2200-$2500 for a new head, piston rings, etc. For an engine that already
has 150,000 miles on it.
I'm trying to decide whether to a) repair it, b) buy and have
installed a newer engine ("81,000 miles, compression: 175") from an
unknown
dismantler I found on the web, for about the same total price, or c) sell
it for parts and buy a newer (but still used) one when I return to the
States in a year. Any suggestions?
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