Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:46:05 -0500
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From: ------------- <VW4X4@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: driving w/ bad valve,+ Death in the Valley for the engine
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I've seen it all with this thread.
I got a hold of an engine that dropped a valve seat. This in turn broke
the valve off. The valve in turn got jammed between the piston and the
head breaking the piston in to pieces. The piston parts in turn fell
to the
bottom on the engine case and got caught between the cam shaft
and the bottom of the engine, breaking the case in to pieces, rendering
the complete engine nothing but junk. I never new the owner or the driver,
and sure am glad I don't.
JOE. W
Rob wrote:
> If you had to drive the van with a bad valve seat and you really
> really didn't want to find the valve itself outside the engine case.
> Pull the spark plug and ground the spark plug wire, disconnect the
> injector (not sure if you need to ground it). The cyl with the bad
> valve would be just going around and around with no outside forces on
> it & you wouldn't be pumping 1/4 of your fuel into the exhaust.
> That sounds like a simple fix as 'by the side of the road' repairs go....
>
> When I was last looking for a VW van-bus-vanagon I was going to buy
> an '80 with a bad valve seat, get it home and fix it. I really didn't
> want to spend the cash to have it towed that far and really really
> didn't want to find the valve sitting next to the engine when I open
> the rear lid (once was enough for that). As it turned out the guy was
> too busy to take my money and I ended up with an even better bus ('87
> Wolfsburg).
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
>
>
>
>
> At 1/23/2007 12:34 PM, Jake de Villiers wrote:
>
>> Pulling the spark plug would help; it would keep the pressure down, but
>> there are many scenarios that would render the motor inoperable.
>>
>> On 1/23/07, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> At 1/23/2007 11:50 AM, Greg Potts wrote:
>>> >Hi Geza,
>>> >
>>> >What would I do?? Drive it, of course. I'd just go a goodly bit
>>> >slower, is all.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >On 23-Jan-07, at 2:01 PM, Geza Polony wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>Seriously, what WOULD you do in Thorndike with a bad valve? Can you
>>> >>imagine
>>> >>the towing charges to get Westy to the nearest Vanagon mechanic?
>>>
>>> Would disconnecting the fuel injector to the bad cyl be enough?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>> becida@comcast.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake
>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>
>
>
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