Weekend fun

[drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca (drew)]

I had the clutch rust on my '80 Rabbit after a winter of storage years and
years ago.  I couldn't start the car except in Neutral, then couldn't
shift gears, of course.

I ended up chaining the bumper to a tractor and jacking the car up to
start it in first.  I let the car warm up a bit and let it down on cement
at WOT with a cement block on the clutch pedal.

A 1.6 will smoke tires (at least on cement.)  Admittedly I did let the car
down slowly so the tire had plenty of time to warm up, but by the time the
weight was down on the car the right front tire was smoking madly.

I ended up having to take the transmission out to free the stuck clutch.

I don't think I'd ever try that again though.

Drew

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Rabbit16v wrote:

> I didn't know you could get the tires to turn over on an 8v?
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> Dave
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> Umm yeah dude...WTF do YOU know about tire smoke/burnouts?  The way you
> talk, you'd think you're a two-time burnout champion or some such shit.
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> Joe Doty
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Shawn c Meze
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: bbeacock@rogers.com
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Weekend fun
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> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:03:47 -0400 "Ben Beacock"
> <bennyb2k4@sympatico.ca>
> writes:
> > Melt tires.. they're about 95% done and I'll need 4 new ones next
> > spring anyways.
> >
> > Ben
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> Oh, in that case you need to air up the tires about 10psi more than you
> normally run.
> Then you need to get wheel speed. Reving the piss out of first or simply
> shift to 2nd will get the tire melted in a fast way.
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> It looked like in the first video your tire smoke was from dragging the
> rear tires. (Ahh the ol' trial and error method.)The 2nd video looked
> like you gave up when things got going. having a liquid on the pavement
> helps too.
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Drew MacPherson - '84 Wolfsburg Edition Scirocco TurboDiesel