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Ray Dios Haque June 7th 06 12:55 PM

"BR" stamping on Heads
 
Some of you may remember the stories of my 68' Bug that started
stumbling, stuttering, and losing power. After dropping the engine and
yanking it apart, I see that the heads are shot and I need a valve job.
Now it's summer, and I have a small budget to work within!

I'm looking at the cost of new heads versus having mine machined. I
know that they need new seats, which from what I can tell means "a
complete job". I'm also pretty sure that they will need grinded down
so that they have a tight fit. I can tell now that things were running
way too lean and it did a real number on them.

So the question is, what does the "BR" stamp on the heads mean? Is
that BRazil? I'm trying to determine if the heads I have now are good
quality. They look like some heads that I have seen in photographs of
"genuine VW parts". But I have seen some that have a BR2 on them. I
figure, if I have some cheap sh*t heads now, I should probably start
over with a new assembled pair.

-Ray Haque


Peter June 9th 06 04:26 AM

"BR" stamping on Heads
 

"Ray Dios Haque" wrote in message
> Ray Dios Haque wrote:
> Correction: ....I see that my heads are stamped with "2BR". And it's

hard to make out, but it appears that they have a small VW symbol and >
german part number.

"2BR" means they were made by VW in Brazil. The part number should begin
"040", which is roughly the equivalent of the German '113' heads.




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