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PartsPlace
inc.
FOR
ALL
VOLKSWAGENS
®
®
REBUILT HEAD!
What Does It Mean.
(Depends on who’s talking!)
Water-cooled VW
®
in-line 4-cylinder engines from
1974 to 1998 are all basically the same design. This "fam-
ily of engines" includes 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800 gas
engines and 1500 and 1600 and some 1900 Diesel
engines. The engines, while different here and there, are
very similar. Many parts from a 1500 gas engine will fit
on an 1800 gas or 1600 diesel. It's a great basic design.
Generally the shortblock assembly will run 250,000
miles without any additional work. The head generally
needs work at 150,000 miles. If your engine runs out of
water and the head warps or if your diesel drops a valve
or if you have 100,000 miles on your engine, you need a
"rebuilt head," "a valve job," "valves ground" or a dozen
other names. You may be offered a "valve job" for $40.00
plus “$6 a valve and $5 a guide" or some such seemingly
low number.
But please read on!
Every year we hear a hundred horror stories. The cheap
job turns out to be not so cheap. The head was warped
and they didn't find it until it was all rebuilt. There was an
internal leak, undetected until it was reinstalled on the
engine. The head was milled too far and the valves hit the
pistons. VW
®
head work is not for everyone. Many shops
that do a hundred American car heads wreck many VW
®
heads.
If you are on a budget, we offer good tested and guar-
anteed used head assemblies. We sell parts, valves,
guides, springs, if you are an excellent mechanic. But
generally your best bet is to buy a remanufactured head
from the PartsPlace.
Our heads are remanufactured by companies that spe-
cialize in remanufacturing VW
®
heads. They do other
aluminum heads such as Ford Escort and Audi
®
but their
main business is VW
®
heads.
"VW Head repair is tricky"
Many things can go wrong. The head can be warped.
The center of the head is higher than the ends. When
you bolt it down there is a space or gap in the center
and the head leaks between the two center cylinders or
between the cylinder and a bolt hole or oil or water
port. The typical machine shop "grinds the head" or
"surfaces the head." This means if the space or gap is
0.010" then they take 0.010" off each end until each
end is level with the middle again. Sounds simple
BUT the entire head is warped not just the head surface
so when you bolt it down again you are bending the
cam up 0.010. If you are leveling the bottom, the top
and cam will be bent. This is just a little thing which
the typical "machine shop" forgets.
This is not a problem in many heads because they
don't have an overhead cam riding in a bearing block
without cam bearing. VW
®
heads do not have any cam
bearings. If the cam is bent or under tension it just
wipes out the bearing blocks and itself.
Our shop remanufactures the head by completely dis-
assembling the head to the original casting and makes
the whole thing over again. The casting is heated until
it is plastic. The head is bent in a press, back into shape,
similar to a forging process, then heat treated all over
again, so the head is straight before it is surfaced; there-
fore the cam is straight.
This is just one of the differences in a remanufactured
head and the "valve job" by the local machine shop
The local machine shop might be great on a "small
block Chevy"... but don't take your VW
®
head there.
Our deluxe remanufactured heads have the valves,
seats, guides, springs, pucks, adjusting springs and cam
installed & lubricated. The valves are adjusted, you just
bolt them on.
All Volkwagen 4 cylinder heads use basically 2 different
head bolt part numbers. All 4 cylinder, 8 valve, gas from
‘75-97use
#SN12306.
This includes Rabbit, Golf, Jetta,
Dasher, and Scirocco. All VW Diesels from ‘77-81 also
use
#SN12306.
All VW Diesels from ‘83-04 use the
12mm bolt,
#SN15551
. This includes TDI’s. 16V, VR-
6, & 1.8 Turbos use special bolts--
Call.
Head Bolts, Diesels
VW
®
makes two different length head bolts.
LOOK AT the picture! If your car is ‘77-81; it uses
11mm bolts. If it's ‘83-03, it uses 12mm. In
between it could be either - measure, call. Almost
all gas cars use 11mm bolts.
11mm bolt
#SN12306
. . . . . . . . . .Set/10
17
9 5
12mm bolt
#SN15551
. . . . . . . . .Set/10
25
0 0
CylinderHeads
11mm
12mm
Gasoline Heads
DEALER
REMAN
RECYCLED
Rabbit
®
, Scirocco
®
, Jetta
®
1.6L; 1.7L FI
#SN1151
......498
35
......
299.
9 5
#SN34712
....
150
00
Rabbit
®
, GTI
®
, Jetta GLI
®
1.8L Solid Lifter, ‘83-84
#SN1164
......675
00
......
399.
9 5
#SN30070
....
200
00
Golf GL
®
, Jetta GL
®
, Fox
®
, Cabriolet
®
1.8L, ‘85-87
#SN30071
....1,060
0 0
....
349.
9 5
#SN34722
....
200
00
Golf GTI
®
, Jetta GLI
®
, ‘85-87 Hyd. Big Valve
#SN5011
......1,060
0 0
....
399.
9 5
#SN34724
....
250
00
Golf GT
®
, GTI
®
, Jetta GL
®
1.8L Digifant, ‘88-92
#SN35936
....660
00
......
349.
9 5
#SN37505
....
250
00
GTI
®
, GLI
®
, Scirocco
®
, 1.8L 16V, ‘86-90
#SN36579
....2,011
0 0
....
599.
9 5
#SN35042
....
395
00
Golf
®
/Jetta
®
Gas ‘93-99.5 2.0L, 8 valve
#SN16886
.
. .
1471.
5 0
..429.
9 5
#SN39056....275.
00
Golf
®
/Jetta
®
Gas ‘99,5-05 2.0L, 8 valve Gas
#SN39520
.
. .
1910.
5 0
..429.
9 5
#SN39521....375.
00
All Heads Sold EXCHANGE
Core Charges Apply.
Some Cheap Rebuilt Heads
Are Not So Cheap!
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TO YOU!
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Diesel Heads
We’re Your Diesel Source!
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NEW! NEW! NEW!
DEALER
US
Rabbit
®
/Jetta
®
/Dasher
®
/Golf
®
‘81-86
1.6L (mechanical)
#SN12111
................................1214
0 0
. .
539.
9 5
Rabbit
®
, Jetta
®
, Golf
®
‘83-86 Turbo (mechanical)
#SN12195
..............................1282
0 0
. .
549.
9 5
Hydraulic Golf
®
, Jetta
®
& Turbo ‘86-92
1.6L 12mm
#SN11612
................................1347
0 0
. .
549.
9 5
Jetta
®
, Golf
®
, Passat
®
1.9 Diesel ‘93-98 (not TDI
®
)
#SN16491
.............................................
699.
9 5
TDI
®
Head ‘99.5-04 NEW “Late"
#SN16736
..............................................
Call
#SN37665
.....
Reman
.
...............................
Call
TDI
®
Head ‘96-99.5 NEW “Early"
#SN18654
..............................................
Call
#SN39646
....
.
Reman
...............................
695.
0 0
REMANUFACTURED
DIESEL HEADS
Our Remanufactured Heads are built
by Diesel Specialists!
DEALER
US
Rabbit
®
/Dasher
®
‘77-80
1.5L 11mm
#SN1161
..................................763
0 0
. .
439.
9 5
Rabbit
®
/Jetta
®
/Dasher
®
‘81-82
1.6L 11mm
#SN1170
..................................672
0 0
. .
429.
9 5
Rabbit
®
/Jetta
®
/Golf
®
‘83-86
1.6L 12mm (mechanical)
#SN1171
..................................827
0 0
. .
419.
9 5
Mechanical for all Turbos ‘82-86
1.6L 12mm
#SN50001
..............................1,060
0 0
.
419.
9 5
Hydraulic Golf
®
/Jetta
®
& Turbo/Non-Turbo ‘86-92
#SN9041
................................1,347
0 0
.
429.
9 5
Call for TDI
®
Remanufactured Heads
GOOD USED HEADS
Limited 12-Month Warranty
1.5 Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#SN30245
. .
$
250.
0 0
1.6 Engine ‘81-82 11mm
. .#SN30247
. . .
250.
0 0
1.6 Engine ‘83-85 12mm
.
#SN30249
. . .
275.
0 0
Hydraulic Engine ‘86-92
.#SN34501
. . .
350.
0 0
1.9 Diesel
®
G/J 93-98
. . . .#SN37686
. . .
395.
0 0
TDI
®
Diesel
. . . . . . . . . . . .#SN37772
Approx.
599.
9 5
