{"id":19,"date":"2008-03-26T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-03-26T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T01:12:58","slug":"broken-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"broken engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there was no putting it  off any longer, and a couple of days ago, I finally faced the task of assessing my diesel VW&#8217;s engine troubles. I was expecting the worst, and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. I pulled the cam and the lifter in question and there was nothing wrong with the lifter at all. Uh oh!<\/p>\n<p>I went ahead and pulled the head and found that one of the valve heads had broken off and fallen into the cylinder while I was zipping along on the highway. The damage was extensive! I&#8217;m guessing that the new head did not have OEM German valves in there, but some cheaper substitute.<\/p>\n<p>I am now looking at a total engine rebuild, starting with <em>another<\/em> new head. In the meantime, I am looking for a Subaru wagon or a cheap Toyota to get me around while I slowly rebuild the diesel.<\/p>\n<p>The next blog entry should be a cheerier one!<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7730590@N08\/2359640171\/\" title=\"broken valve by red alder ranch, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2279\/2359640171_5ff5440178.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"broken valve\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7730590@N08\/2360480850\/\" title=\"piston carnage by red alder ranch, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2322\/2360480850_b86f3c76b9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"piston carnage\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there was no putting it off any longer, and a couple of days ago, I finally faced the task of assessing my diesel VW&#8217;s engine troubles. I was expecting the worst, and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. I pulled the cam and the lifter in question and there was nothing wrong with the lifter at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.redalderranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}