[Vwdiesel] rabbit head

[pmdolan at sasktel.net]

If memory serves, the car is a bit of a dog at one tooth, a real dog at 
two and crashes at three. 

I would look at two things: your idler pulley bearings and your IP for 
end play. 

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:58:40 -0800 (PST), peter blake 
<pila47 at yahoo.com> wrote:
   So I now know what happens when the timing belt jumps a tooth
> or two.  The exhaust valves did a tap dance on the pistons and
> managed to snap the cam at the no. 1 cylinder.    The real question 
> is why my new belt walked off the pulley and
> self machined against the cover.  When I pulled the cover off the
> belt was about 1/2" wide and loose. I haven't investigated further. 
>   I cleaned the top of the block and the bottom of the head and
> tried to slip in a .003" feeler gauge and couldn't.  So I'm hoping
> it is still flat enuf to be usable.    My plan now is to take the 
> head off the Jetta, which has the burnt
> out injector hole and remove the valves followers and camshaft and
> use them in the rabbit head.  And then put that head on the Jetta so
> that I have at least one functional vehicle. 
>   A couple of problems I have r removing two of the followers from
> the head.  The valves punched up far enuf to put a crown in the face
> of the follower.  The other problem is whether or not I can even use
> the valves at all. I'm hoping to just lap them in and be done with it. 
> Any thots as to why the belt would walk off the pulleys and then 
> stretch?  New belt new water pump and new tensioner, why wouldn't
> it track straight?  Peter
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