this might be the last straw

[Scirocco-Al" <scirocco-Al@insight.rr.com (Scirocco-Al)]

I had a 92 vr6.  I spent $1000 dollars rebuilding the head and then sold the
car.  The guy that bought it from me had it 3 months and the timing chain
broke.

He put a motor from a passat in it.

Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
To: "the hitman" <vwscir87@hotmail.com>
Cc: <scirious@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: this might be the last straw


> My guess would be that the crankshaft snapped (exactly why, who knows)
> and that would cause a chain reaction of destruction to the engine.
> This is just my guess since I've never worked on a VR6 but an engine is
> an engine when it all boils down so this looks like the best explination
> since I can't see the timing chains having enough strength to snap a
> crankshaft.  They would snap before a tempered shaft anyday.
>
> William
>
> the hitman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > upon further review, here is what was found: the turbo is fine, the
> > head is a mess. the timing chains are not broken, but were not "on
> > track". now here is the disturbing part, the crankshaft is broken. is
> > this possible? i thought they were temped and all that sh*t to prevent
> > them from breaking. and my next question is did the chains slip off
> > and this caused the crank to break? or vice versa? someone please
> > help, i'm getting very confused here!
> >
> >
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