[Vwdiesel] Sick, illiterate design

[Arkady Mirvis]

Here Loren points to a AUDY tool - a product of serious sickness of 
contemporary german engineering mind. These "GERMAN ENGINEERS" are loughing 
stock in my opinion. I do not generalize! Not all are very bad. It is the 
forced upon Germany american mentalitet which is responsible for the demise 
of best german traditions. I feel respect to what is left of Bosch.
While working on my 1991 Jetta I spotted how easy it was to transpose the 
pulleys of water and steering pums. Both had same amount of holes on same 
bolt hole circle diameter. Behind the steering pump pulley there was a 
spacer. Why? What prevented moving the pump, or the flange on pump on its 
shaft, or have a 1 mm longer shaft? Sick mind.
More. Socket head cap screws looking same length. You install a wrong length 
screw and steering pump pulley is jammed!
I can go on and on!   Ark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LBaird119 at aol.com>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] CAM ISSUES


> In a message dated 8/30/2010 9:40:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> matt_lisa at sprynet.com writes:
>
>> I've seen issues with Subaru timing belts as well.  To get the crank bolt
>> off, people were putting 6 ft. cheaters on them resting on the ground, 
>> and
>> then bumping the engine to break the bolt loose.
>>
>
>  There's an Audi "special tool" that does just that.  It locks against
> part of the
> frame, bump the starter and break the bolt loose.  :-)
>     Loren
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