Snow drift + no timing belt cover = trouble

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Did the EXACT same thing to one of my roccos about 10 years ago....LOL. 
Ever since, I have been a firm believer in timing belt covers (especially
the lower one).

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

79 VW Iltis
81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v
81 Scirocco S (TDI Swap project)
90 Corrado TDI
91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow swap project)

Mark said:
> 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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