[Vwdiesel] Banana Rabbit--It gets worse!!

[Dave Cook]

So much for just repairing the rod and oil pump.  The pump was fine, what I was thinking was an oil pump bolt is a rod bolt.  The bottom of the rod is resting on part of the block.  The pin ripped out of the bottom of the piston, trashing that too.  The piston has rotated in the bore.  I can only imagine what the cylinder walls are like.  I also imagine that the crankshaft bearing surface has been pretty damaged.

I posted some pics of the carnage on a public Facebook album that anyone should be able to see:

<http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=361754&id=583537597&l=035aba2bd5>

My roommate and I have thought of a couple more options for where to go from here:

*Remove the engine and transmission.  Fill the engine compartment along with any gaps, rust holes etc I might find with expanding foam.  Turn it into a boat and freak other boaters out.

*Fish the rod out of the engine and free up the crank.  Disconnect the fuel line from the injector, and tee it into the return line.  Now it is a 3-cylinder engine!

I thought the car was "Banana" yellow, but it seems to be lemon yellow...

Dave Cook


--- On Mon, 1/31/11, Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Banana Rabbit--It gets worse!!
> To: "VW Diesel Group" <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>, "Audi-VW-Diesels Group" <Audi-VW-Diesels at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:26 PM
> So I pulled the cam and was pleased
> to see that all the pucks had gone back to approximately the
> same position, indicating to me that maybe the valves had
> not bent. I was excited for a few minutes.
> 
> Then I pulled the belt all the way off.  Completely
> intact, and the engine still wouldn't rotate.
> 
> Crap.
> 
> So I pulled the oil pan.
> 
> The rod cap for #4 was sitting in it.  S***. 
> F***.
> 
> Upon initial looking, it seems that the rod smacked the oil
> pump housing which was the source of the chunks of metal in
> the pan.  I need to look closer and see if anything
> else was damaged.
> 
> So where from here?
> 
> My reason for buying the car was to get it fixed up a bit
> and running and sell it for a little profit.  Not sure
> that will be the case now...
> 
> Options I've thought about:
> *Repair/Rebuild the engine
> *Part out the rest of it.  Uugh
> *Stick the wrecked Passat's TDI engine in there and drive
> the Rabbit around until I get the parts gathered to put it
> in something better (like my bus)
> 
> Assuming the damage is limited to the cap being off and
> needing to replace the bearings on that rod and the oil
> pump, what else would I need to consider doing?  
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Cook
> 
> 
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