[Vwdiesel] Braking -- engine etc. ( injection pump as a brake ? )

[Sandy Cameron]

At 08:03 AM 1/9/04 -0800, you wrote:
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>Loren said :
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>  As Lee pointed out.  The pump turns at HALF crank rpm so maximum 
>rpm of the pump would be about 2700rpm and that's in the 1.5.  
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>Answer :   Hagar stands by his statement to the very word.   All the VW's
>that I know of are ok at 5000 RPM going down that hill.

Hagar is right. Go look at the cutaway of the pump and the relative size of
the gov. gears. Looks like about 2/1 ratio

Pump turns half of engine rpm, gears boost gov rpm to twice pump rpm, 
ergo: gov rpm = engine rpm

Sandy