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<DIV>In a message dated 1/8/2014 10:53:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
dlstiefel@dekalbk12.org writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>When I got home this evening it had got up in the low 40s here so I
put a<BR>1/2 " drive pull handle with socket to go on the bolt on the fan on
the<BR>crankshaft. I could turn it but with too much effort. It does
seem easier<BR>than yesterday when it was 20 to 30 degrees colder but not that
much and<BR>still not right. I don't remember any steel main inserts when all
this was<BR>done. I'm not ready to condemn my local guy yet who line
bored the case<BR>yet. I'm not saying he's perfect and could not make a
mistake. But he and<BR>his business has been very respected in the VW
community here in northeast<BR>Alabama for over 40 years. This being a rule
area you just can't do half par<BR>work and stay in business for that
long. Word of bad work goes quick in<BR>small towns. If there is
damage to the inserts it will be my fault. The<BR>combo of a fresh tight
engine with 300 miles on it combined with the temps<BR>and the weight of oil
was probably a bad series to put together. I should<BR>of never tried to
drive yesterday. It will be in the 50s tomorrow and see<BR>if it feels
loose enough to try to crank so maybe I might could get some oil<BR>worked in
but I know it's a long shot and will probably have to drag her to<BR>the
school drop and completely disassemble the engine and replace the<BR>offending
insert and anything else we see. UGH!!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I hate to be the 1 to say this Dennis, but you're probably going to want
to drag it back to school, pull the engine and tear it down. If not, you won't
get a good nights sleep until you do.</DIV>
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<DIV>I had a similar issue with my T-34 engine, in that it just stopped
running while sitting in the garage (was warming it up to do an oil change). I
later found that a rag had gotten left inside by mistake, and plugged the oil
pick up. That caused oil starvation to #1 main bearing, and the engine locked
up. </DIV>
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<DIV>I was able to use a breaker bar to free it up, but I still pulled it out
and tore it down. I did this mainly because I wanted to know what happened,
and so I could sleep better knowing it had been fixed. This happened to me in
the early summer of 2012, where temps were a lot warmer than earlier this
week. But oil starvation, is still oil starvation. I got lucky in that I
didn't damage the case, and only needed a new set of bearings and a crank
polish to get things right again. I hope yours is equally as easy to
fix.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Bob 65
Notch S w/Sunroof and IRS aka Krusty<BR>64 T-34 Ghia aka Wolfie<BR>71
Square-vert under
construction</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>