Re: [8V] Lower Timing Belt Cover

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

We sure do have snow drifts, and I used to have an '83 Scirocco with no timing
belt covers. I drove it into a couple of snow drifts, too... no problems!
    Just my experience.
    -Josiah (New Hampshire)

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drew wrote:

> I don't know if they have snow drifts in New England (funny, I'd have
> thought they did) but ...
>
> My grandfather's 1975 Rabbit threw 3 timing belts in 2 Midwestern-Ontario
> winter until it went in for a modification courtesy of VW - a timing belt
> cover!  A great car for it's size in the snow, but you start nosing drifts
> over the hood and that snow is going to hit the belt hard sooner or later.
> That damned prevailing west wind piles snow up HARD around here -
> sometime's it's like hitting sand - none of this damned powder stuff... :)
>
> I tried to climb through a three foot drift in my '80 Rabbit about 10
> years ago - unfortunately the drift was 100 feet long, not 10 as I had
> expected.  After twenty feet the wheels lost traction and the car came to
> a stop.  The engine compartment was a brick of snow (apparently the engine
> can still run on the air that makes it through a snow-choked airbox).  We
> had to pull the car down of the snow with a tractor - if only I'd gotten
> the half-track conversion.
>
> ...Drew
>
> >Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:48:01 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Scott Pidgeon <spidgeon@yahoo.com>
> >Subject: Re: [8V] Lower Timing Belt Cover
> >
> >Greg,
> >
> >I wouldn't worry about it. In June of 1987, I took the covers off to
> >change the belt for the first time, and throughout the subsequent
> >belt-changing, the covers never went back on. That car has lived
> >happily ever after in New England (i.e., snow, sticks, rocks, potholes
> >that could kill a Peterbuilt...)
> >
> >So, lessee, that's 12 years!
> >
> >Scott  <--waiting for the jinx to kick in.
>
> Drew MacPherson, Network Analyst, University of Guelph
>
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