Date:         Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:18:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Turbo motor?
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> good luck.
> the price is right.
> I just pulled two jetta engines in pick n' pull yards..
> where you schlep your tools out to the cars in yard..
> it's blazing hot sun and too glary to see much ..
> working on rough rocks..
> everything is ripped apart and damaged a lot.
>

  The Jetta engine I bought, via Craig's List....that one was taken out "the
easy way"...When I got it, it was hanging on a cherry picker engine hoist in
the sellers garage...we just wheeled it over to my side door and lowered it
down inside my van.

  But the 'easy way' part was that the seller simply took it out with a
sawzall from  his sister's wrecked Jetta...I guess he unbolted the motor
mounts and the tranny...but everything else was simply cut off (with the
sawzall) between the motor and the chassis... He didn't even unplug the
engine computer..he just cut the wiring harness with the sawzall....I
know....lots of wasted good parts, him doing it like that.   But doing it
quick and dirty like that meant I got a $300 motor, loaded in my van in
about 2 minutes, with all the accessory stuff still in place...

  I'm sure Scott probably wiped every nut and bolt before putting a wrench
on it..and swept up the junkyard when he was done...
  I've done my share of crummy conditions car work.... -40f in Jackson Hole
in the snow and ice...or on a windy sandy deserted beach in Baja with my
Dodge Van lifted onto boulders we carried up from the surf...Sometimes you
have no choice, sometimes the saving is worth the agony of working in the
dirt...

  Don Hanson