Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:41:59 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Type 4 Necromancy?
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Jeez! ?
You guys want pictures of dropped valve seats, seats dropped back into
the port, cams run flat, #3 Main bearing that missed the pin, #2 main
bearings hammered out, bearings spun in the case, seized pistons with
cylinders that had to be broken off with a hammer, Pistons that ate small
valve parts, heads that detonated, 1700 rods bent pushing a 94mm piston
at 5500 rpms, cylinders that are scored from broken rings and collapsed
ring lands.
I can give you all of those but I can't furnish the bucket for your
tears.
If you want to chronicle broken parts that is great.
I consider even taking pictures of those events as a waste of time since
you'll know what they are as soon as you see it in your own engine
...................... and you'll know exactly why the part failed.
Stan Wilder
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:09:17 -0400 "G. Matthew Bulley"
<gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM> writes:
> I am currently disassembling a stock, 1982 Type 4 motor that
> apparently
> suffered from lots of abuse (few oil changes, sat up for some
> years,
> then was restarted, was operated (either) without the foam
> cooling-tin
> seal in place, or with some tin missing, apparently NEVER had the
> valves
> adjusted, had massive oil leaks for a LONG period of time, etc.).
> The
> junkyard grease-pencil on it *looked* like it said 32,000 miles. On
> clean up, it looks more like 320,000 miles (which I cannot
> believe).
>
> I have the ability to take digital pictures of this motor, record
> observations, and *could* post to a website if this is of interest
> to
> enough folks. It is kind of a hassle, but I've also been where lots
> of
> you T4 owners are, wondering what's going on inside the motor, and
> wondering what certain types of failure look like. Pictures of shiny
> new
> motors abound, failure pix are rare.
>
> P-mail. If it's a handful of folks, I send pics p-mail in the
> coming
> days. If it's heaps, I'll make a site.
>
> Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Bulley-Hewlett
> Marketing & Communications
> Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com <http://bulley-hewlett.com/>
> AIM = IExplain4u
> Phone: +1.919.658.1278
>
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