I'm cranky!!

fastback · Post by **fastback** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:15 am

Parted out a vanagon with a 2,1 DJ engine last weekend and was hoping for som usable engineparts.This is what i found :
I suspected something wrong when driving this car... noisy engine sound and vibrating clutch. had the car up in 50 mp/h.....

tencentlife · Post by **tencentlife** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:38 am

Wow! That's practically unheard-of with a wbx crank. Wonder what they did to make that happen. And of course, it still ran.

fastback · Post by **fastback** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:44 am

It happend suddenly according to the prev owner on town driving.
It was plenty of oil on it.
Never heard of a wassercrank splitting though , but some type one's
Problems with the casting i asume.

fusername · Post by **fusername** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:49 pm

seen it done in a bug I took apart, the high spots wear real smooth, looked like it had been driven on for some time before being pulled. Gotta love VW

WBX Man · Post by **WBX Man** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:45 am

What a strange way to break!
I would assume it to break radial thru a con rod journal and not axial thru the counter weight !?

fusername · Post by **fusername** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:23 pm

thats exactly where it broke on the bug as well. the rod journals, since they are machined in, are stress focus points, even with a radius, so its gonna give there when the whole thing starts aflexin.