[AT] (D Case stuck) Another possibility

[Robinson]

         Son Scott bought a VW beetle a few years ago from one of Diana's 
brothers. Her brother had driven it one day and drove in the drive and shut 
it off. When he got in it the next day it was stuck tight, didn't shake at 
all. He parked it and made plans to get another engine for it but never got 
it done. I'm not sure why so many guys want to replace engines before 
finding out what is wrong with the one they have... Anyway after it sat 
several years Scott bought it and we hauled it home. We pushed it in the 
shop and pulled the head. I don't recall if it was on the first head or the 
second we found the problem. A large hunk of carbon that had gotten mashed 
down "almost" enough to let the engine turn on over but not quite. It was 
locked tight and would not move either way. Apparently it was putting 
enough of a bind on the cylinder (the hunk was at the extreme edge of the 
piston) and maybe a lot of pressure on the rod and mains to lock the 
engine. The piston itself was really trying hard to cock sidewise in the 
cylinder. We cleaned the carbon all out of the combustion  chambers, put 
the heads back on with new gaskets and closed everything up. It started and 
ran like a dream... The BIL about $#!t when he found out that was all it 
was. He took a real beating $$$ on that car but learned a good lesson.


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Francis Robinson
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