[Vwdiesel] VW diesel --"Jackrabbit gone berserk"?? you bet 1980 deluxe 4 door.

[Nate Wall]

The Boss I used to have a few years back was an investigator for the Office
of Defects Investigation at NHTSA. One of his assignments was to investigate
the Rabbit Diesel runnaway problem after several complaints were received
from owners. They took Rabbit Ds and ran them around on a test track under
varying conditions to try to get the desired effect.

--Nate

Forrest L King wrote:

> LMAO -  great story,  now it is time for rings- should be nothing for a
> stepper like you  :)
>
> Forrest
>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:36:44 -0800 "H .Hagar" <h_hagar at prcn.org> writes:
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> > Some of you may have heard roomers about this condition -------- I
> > had.   For you who never drove one like that --LOL read on--and the
> > rest -I could not stop you with a bat.
> > It was a 300 dollar Canadian ----"Special" --- Just got it --with a
> > note in the glove compartment from the police saying noisy exhaust
> > must be fixed and proof delivered to Station.On my way home from
> > "MIDAS" lol    ---it speeded up when I took foot of pedal---about a
> > KM from driveway.What to do ?----brakes were so bad --that stalling
> > the engine in high gear was out (4 speed Manual)---managed to coast
> > and brake just short of driveway in ----NEUTRAL  ----15000rpm
> > 20000rpm? ----was silk smooth sound almost like a turbine ---I sat
> > and waited for the rods and pistons  to fly all over the
> > place.---Big Rig pulled in front of me and the driver came running
> > with a fire extinguisher-----Then it died..He told me he thought I
> > was on fire----He was behind IN THE SMOKE ----and smoke there was
> > ---for two Kms.That Rabbit did not need an injection pump after
> > 10000rpm-----LOL it picked up the crankcase oil ----and was quite
> > happy.----HAGAR.----sure was fun.
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