[Vwdiesel] Runaway VW diesel Lore.-- ( 19 september 2005 )

[H . Hagar.]

This is just an update ---about the most interesting side of Rabbits ----the berserk.    A
Rabbit goes berserk and you think that is 48 HP ?  ----not even close .More like 100
HP.---Now a Passat TDI ?   ---holy smoky   that would be brutal..

Many years before I got snared by a Rabbit ---I was driving a GM disaster V8  ---Pickup
and Delta 88    with the "ROCKET"  diesel ---the rocket that blew up on the way up.---In
the process I read a book called  Modern Diesel cars  by   Jan P Norbye.-----good reading
. In that book he mentioned the Rabbit.---
So now I know there is a Rabbit diesel.---Then tales about terrified woman drivers on 401
Toronto Kanada
found it impossible to stop the little peskers.---- LOL it gives a completely new meaning
to the saying  --------smoking it down 401 in the FAST lane ---wow.-- Then someone raised
supreme hell about it and  ---a Rabbit was driven around and around a track trying to
duplicate  the condition---(STUPID) of course there was NO problems.---why stupid ?  they
did NOT use a Runaway Rabbit.-----the problem ?  simple --it goes back to  the greens
demanding cleaner diesels. --When Hagar was a whippersnapper all diesels had the top ring
way down on the piston.   Then the ring was moved up to  the top.--In to the ring of fire.

Rings coked up and broke and stuck---resulting in blowby--lots of it. Remember the hose
from VC to intake ? --jep    there is the runaway. Pull that hose and she will NOT runaway
no how NO way.
There a two ways of instant relief  ---oil separator in hose  or do like I did route the
hose to the back bumper and use exhaust flow ventury to evacuate crank case.

Really I am more interested in the Human side of runaways-----the terror the fast thinking
and the laughing after you made it ---like me I sat there and split my guts.---I even
pulled the key and threw it out on the ground.---and waited and waited expecting to see
pistons and rods flying all over the place---that was a LOT of RPM's ---sounded like a
turbine. and smooooooth   as silk.----and then ?   I walked across the highway and cracked
open a cold beer---and split my guts some more.---Sure was FUN.

Hagar.

PS : great memories  ----say I.