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Thanks for posting back with the solution, it's always good to get the end of the tale, especially when it's a happy ending on both the Polo and the T3

Another failure :oops: :roll: :evil: Fitted replacement cylinder head, new HG, new head bolts, original cam housing. After reading around I lubricated the threads of the bolts and the base of the "washer" with engine oil, VW says nothing about this either way that I have seen, so I took th...

Thanks for the reply. I am getting quite a bit quicker at doing a HG change, timing belts are a doddle now. The head was checked and I could see it was a tiny bit out. With a rule and a set of feeler gauges I measured it at 0.05mm or less. It turns out that the wear limit is 0.05mm, but in this case...

I have a "spare" Gti engine, bought but never used, so decided today to remove the head from that. I put a straight edge on it and was pleased to find that it was absolutely flat so decided to fit that to the engine that is in the car. The head is off again, and there were the signs of coo...

Well, it's back up and running.............. and still not right I checked the head with a straight edge. It was just a little low in the centre area, but less than 0.05mm, a local garage thoought that would be well within the gaskets capabilities I did follow the correct procedure for torqueing the...

The head is off again. Before removal I did a compressions check - numbers one and two were around 14 bar, three and four 14.2 bar or a little higher. I did notice oil on the spark plugs though, worse on number one There are some photos below which show water and oil present on the gasket surface, p...

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One of the common failures of the cooling fans on the 6n2, and probably other Polos / VW's is that the slow speed stops working because the "resistor fails". The solution is a new fan, or possibly some external resistor arrangement. Having suffered the same failure I decided to break into ...

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Hmm ran it up to temperature again Two issues: Oil smoke - it didn't smoke before, I have done an oil & filter swap, Mann filter and Morris 5W40 fCST ull synthetic, it is not over full also replaced the breather pipe from the collector box to the air filter inlet for a better one Condensation ou...

I have confirmed this morning that the slow speed on the radiuator fan has failed, so the usual blown resistor. I could hear the fan controller click when terminals 2 and 1 on the thermal switch connector were shorted

Replacement fan ordered from ECP

Well, I have been a numpty :oops: :) Sorted out the oil pressure testing kit and was about to remove the sensor when I noticed it wasn't pushed fully home. On idle it made contact, at higher engine revs it broke contact. Firmly reattached and there is no warning light. The car has been run up to tem...

Thanks Stan,good to see you around. I threw the spanners on over the weekend, got held up when I realised I needed new head bolts. Finished off today, and the engine was warming up, sounded fine, so i took her to about 2000 rpm. After a few seconds the oil warning light started flashing.Drop back to...

Anyone ??

.... before I start throwing spanners on her