[Vwdiesel] Injectors?

[James Hansen]

I lost one belt at idle.  Winter, -35, in the 89 Jetta td, an hour from
home.  I started it at work, stopped at the store and let it idle while I
ran in for a few things. I noticed idle was a bit rough, with the occasional
hiccup, so I left it run to warm up and allow the heater to try to chew away
at the cold.
Hopped back in, still idling fine.  I blipped the throttle, went for first,
and it stopped dead with a big clack as the piston discussed personal space
requirements with an exhaust valve.  It had torn out the belt teeth on the
crank sprocket.  Towed home, re-belted it just for giggles, as I knew it had
at least one toasted valve, right?.... so I thought.   Started up, ran like
a watch. Go figure.... That was at 520 or so thousand km.    Sold it still
running like a watch at 580.  It's still running, I see it on occasion.
That was the best car ever.  I will only ever use factory T-belts too from
then on.

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of LBaird119 at aol.com
Sent: December-04-11 12:06 AM
To: Vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Injectors?

 
In a message dated 12/3/2011 6:39:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
jhsg at sasktel.net writes:

Really  sucks to have it go out on you at highway
speeds.  It's never  pretty.



Lost one just dropping to 35mph.  Bent 1 or 2 valves.   Same car, it jumped 
a tooth, at 60mph, 
going over the mountain pass with 3 or 4 of us in the car.  Turned  around, 
coasted most of the 
way home then Dad towed us home.  Only jumped a tooth, lost power,  sounded 
"wrong" white 
smoke...
  Wasn't too long until I finally tracked my troubles down to a worn  input 
shaft bushing on the 
injector pump.  Knew the belt wasn't tracking but kept looking for  
something bent and 
expected that to be a  roller bearing instead of a bushing so the  wobble 
isn't felt if you 
wiggle it the wrong way!
    Loren
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