Tammer, It's not an easy choice if you don't know why the locked up one won't turn.
Excessive endplay may not be a totally bad thing since you are more than likely going to have either engine line bored. The locked up engine may be perfect on the inside, but has been left outside and water has caused the pistons to rust together with the cylinders. I just finished one like that and the engine was a vw rebuild and I never touched the block. It felt good, the rods swung free and when I fired it up it had phenomenal oil pressure...like it might have had 5,000 miles on it before being left in a baja in a junk yard. I got lucky...and it runs good too! Cheers, dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Enough sunlight reaches the Earth *every* hour to meet the world's energy demand for an entire year.....so, what do we do with it? On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, tammer wrote: > Hi gang, > > I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. > > Assume that you don't live in the US and used engines are scarce and all you > had to choose from > was an engine that was stuck up(doesn't turn) or an engine with excessive > endplay, which would you choose and why? > Obviously, either choice will be rebuilt before usage but I want to know > which one would be the lesser of the two evils. > > This is going to be my practice rebuild for a new engine that I hope to build > someday. > > Regards, > Tammer in Manila. > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
