RE: 1' deep puddle

["Mark Madison" <mmadison@aracnet.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>I would believe that bent rods would lead to catastrophic engine
failure right away.  the tolerance in there doesn't allow for that
kind of abuse and still work.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
[mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Chris Cavitt
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 11:33 PM
To: vwdaun@yahoo.com; feenix@javanet.com; green536@hotmail.com
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: 1' deep puddle


would bent rods still let car run but run poorly right? my car i was going 
slow but ever since it has had very poor aceleration and cutting out and 
stuff...
and how would a pudle do somthin like that?


>From: Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>
>To: feenix@javanet.com, Chris DeLong <green536@hotmail.com>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: 1' deep puddle
>Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 18:13:14 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
>--- 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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