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Since I was fighting with blog software for a lot of 2010 (and still am, although it's coming together) I missed blogging a lot of stuff. I had some stuff late in the year to blog about--but I forgot to take the camera with the latest photos stored with me for Christmas, so I didn't get caught up then.
Anyway...I got 500-ish miles on the vintage beetle since putting the engine back together, so it was time to pull the engine and re-torque the heads. This is apparently something that you do to engines with Aluminum heads. I pulled the engine in November, and in December got it all taken apart and re-torqued the heads, for what should be the final time for 60,000 miles or so.
The good news is, the nuts holding the heads on didn't move at all, which is great. So now I need to put the engine back together and in the car. The lingering issue is what to do about the oil cooler--I suspect it's leaking a bit, but I'm not sure. I will hopefully work on it this Saturday before the Colts play.
This is the view of the garage with the engine farthest apart in mid-December:
