Snow drift + no timing belt cover = trouble

[yoscirocco at hotmail.com (daniel savatteri)]

did you feel like that guy in the jetta in the Toureg comercial?


>From: "David Utley" <mr.utility@highstream.net>
>Reply-To: mr.utility@highstream.net
>To: "Mark" <mardak@cogeco.ca>,<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: Snow drift + no timing belt cover = trouble
>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:29:53 -0600
>
>Been there, did that, didn't like it either...  (thumb down)...
>
>David utley
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Mark
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 6:18 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Snow drift + no timing belt cover = trouble
>
>Well I now know the perils of not running a timing belt cover when you
>live in a snow belt.  The other night, in order to get into my parking
>spot at home, I had to blast through a pretty sizable snow drift.  It
>instantly stalled, and wouldn't start.
>
>Tried again in the morning, nada...  Checked the intake for snow - sure
>enough my swiss-cheesed airbox (relocated behind the passenger side
>headlights) was packed with snow right up to the filter.  Thinking this
>was the problem I removed the snow and cranked it over till the battery
>died...   So I got a friend of mine to pull me down the street with his
>car and tried to bum-start it, thinking that a bunch of moisture was
>fouling my starting attempts.  Something was off, it sounded weird...
>Checked for spark, fine...  Hmmmm...
>
>So on a hunch I checked my valve timing - yup - it was off by around
>four teeth.  Hoping I didn't bend all the new valves I put into my
>recently rebuilt done-up head, I realigned everything and fired it up.
>So far so good, everything seems alright...  Now I have to tune the damn
>thing again, which was a major PITA last time - I had to screw around
>with different combinations of cam (adjustable) and spark timing to get
>decent power without pinging.  Oh well, at least it ain't broke!
>
>Lesson learned...
>
>Mark.
>75
>80 S
>81 S  2.0 ABA/JH/4K
>
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