[Vwdiesel] How old is everyone? Canyou admit it?

[Joe]

My '82 Rabbit hums along the interstate quite nicely in "E-th" gear at
68MPH... Right at that spot on the speedometer that has 3 dots on it.  My
guess is the dots are there to indicate the maximum speed for the gear
numbered by the dots.  I can't imagine pushing it that fast in 3rd though.
Wish it had a tach, just so I could see the RPMs.

I've also found if I let it sit in the driveway for a week or so then go do
drive it, it's way grumpier than usual.  Huge clouds of blue smoke and I
have to put a little throttle to it till it warms up.  Leaks a little oil
too, either by the crankshaft or the intermediate shaft.  But it still
runs...

Joe


-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of mikitka
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:11 PM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] How old is everyone? Canyou admit it?

I can attest to not babying these VW diesels.  If I run my 91 TD jetta hard
every couple of days it doesn't smoke near as much as it does if I take it
easy to squeak mileage and then have to get on it to jump out into traffic.
Then it is a serious black smoke screen behind me and some mad followers.
LOL  But I noticed that if I run up the rpms through the gears every few
days while taking off from a light or so it doesn't seem to smoke as much.

Nick

> A retired engineer told me that if I never went over 55, the car would 
> last forever. I was religious about 55 for about 5 years. I was coming
from 
> Bakersfield and decided 70 would get me home quicker. The engine sang and 
> got me home. The next morning one half of the car was grey, a greasy grey 
> that smeared. It started right up but oil smoke came out of every crack in
the 
> hood. This car went to the junkyard.

  Sad story.  Two things there.  One, keeping it below 55 is about 
the worst thing you can do to one (unless you rod it up to 55 most 
of the time.)  They load up the valves pretty badly if you "little old 
lady" them all the time.  The other is that you most likely had a 
clogged breather or coked rings.   PO probably used the wrong 
oil and coked up the insides of the engine.  :-(
  No sitting under the trees here!  3F this morning!
    Loren
/vwdiesel

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