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

[Stephen Kraus]

I'm betting you can pull the head and that piston, replace it and get it
back on the road as a 4 cylinder easily

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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