[Vwdiesel] Nicks supersmoker problem found

[Shawn Wright]

On 12 Apr 2005 at 23:33, LBaird119 at aol.com <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:

> If
> it's out of tolerance or was not done, or there are pieces missing from the
> bearings from some chucklehead pounding the int shaft into position, now would
> be a good time to change them. 
> 
>   Let's not forget the likelihood of having done NOTHING to the 
> intermediate shaft bearings!  Rear one would have lots of chunks 
> flaking off in that case!

Yep, one only needs to check out my pics for a reminder of what they look like! 
These were original VW bearings, as was everything else in the engine. All other 
bearings were fine, but int shaft were falling apart = 25psi hot oil pressure max.
And I imagine if they bothered to tank the block with caustic, then did nothing to the 
bearings, this can't help them either...
Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D 
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy