My 80 is alive... Again!

[rocco_crossing@hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

SUPERB!!! A solo rebuild, CONGRATS!!! Sounds like a success. Hope everythign 
else goes good for you now!


Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (autocross ready, tune up, harness bar, rear wheel bearings, and 
finally I may get to makeing it look better!!)





>From: Benjamin Harder <vwtype53@yahoo.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: My 80 is alive... Again!
>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
>
>For those following my engine rebuild saga... just a week ago my 80 came to
>life for the first time all winter with the freshly rebuild 2.0 16v I had
>spent all winter working on... only for it to blow up within 50 miles!
>The machine shop had resized one of the rods... and *that* rod spun a 
>bearing!
>(that's an issue I will deal with later)
>
>This morning I go into the garage around 11:00am, looking at my poor engine
>in pieces...again.  I get to work reassembling everything...my "new" crank 
>and
>rods, along with new bearings and such... somehow get the
>engine back into the car by myself... and by 7:00pm am ready to turn the 
>key.
>(that time includes breaks for lunch and dinner too!)
>
>Well, I started the engine first try... and ended up driving it for 30 
>miles.
>So far so good... but now I'm sooo skeptical about what else might go wrong
>that I'm not getting my hopes too high just yet.  I plan to drive the car
>much more in the next few days, so I'll keep posting... but had to share 
>the
>initial good news so far!
>
>
>=====
>Benjamin Harder
>86 Scirocco 16v
>80 Scirocco 16v
>93 Passat GLX
>
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