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Hi all, I just removed the head from my 1979 Rabbit 1.5D which blew the head gasket. To my surprise I discovered that several of the coolant passages were blocked by the head gasket. These are passages that exist on the head and block, and you can see piles of sediment where coolant was unable to get through and just sat there.
This is the first time I've ever had the head off a VW, so I might be a total noob but my first thought is that this coolant would just sit there and boil, or at very least be completely un-circulated. That doesn't seem right to me.
There are other places where the coolant passage is huge compared to the pinhole on the head gasket.
This all doesn't seem logical. Is this normal? Is this even the right head gasket? Is that the original head gasket?
edit: red are where holes should be and green are where pinholes aren't big enough.
edit 2: people say the images don't work https://imgur.com/a/NAyyGyZ
This is the first time I've ever had the head off a VW, so I might be a total noob but my first thought is that this coolant would just sit there and boil, or at very least be completely un-circulated. That doesn't seem right to me.
There are other places where the coolant passage is huge compared to the pinhole on the head gasket.
This all doesn't seem logical. Is this normal? Is this even the right head gasket? Is that the original head gasket?
edit: red are where holes should be and green are where pinholes aren't big enough.
edit 2: people say the images don't work https://imgur.com/a/NAyyGyZ



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