Re: 1' deep puddle

[Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>]

--- Feenix <feenix@javanet.com> wrote:
> Chris DeLong wrote:
> > 
> > Don't know about the clutch thing but i would
> definetely recommend you do a
> > compression test cause the only way I can think of
> water getting into the
> > crank case is by forcing it past the pistons which
> would have entered the
> > combustion chamber via the intake valves. GL
> > 
> 
> If water got into the combustion chamber he would have
> blown the motor.
> My friend did this with his Mustang in a puddle. 

I'd have to agree here.  I bought an '85 parts car a few
years ago that had gone through a puddle - bent all four
rods - one so severly that it wouldn't clear the cylinder
wall.


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Daun Yeagley
'79 Scirocco    <---For sale  :(
'80 Scirocco S
'81 Rabbit Pickup 
'85 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v
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