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Adriaan Loedolff wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Heard a story the other day about a VW engine expiring with a helluva > bang and some smoke in the owner's driveway. After pulling the engine > out and taking it apart, it turns out that the crankshaft had broken. > Now, I haven't seen this motor myself so I don't know exactly where > the crank had broken but how on earth does one manage to break the > crank of a standard engine anyway? I have worked on this particular > engine before and I knew that it needed some rings and maybe a top end > overhaul, but there was no indication whatsoever that it was going to > die so dramaticaly, so suddenly. > > What do you guys & gals think? > > Regards > > Adriaan Loedolff > adriaan@norton.ctech.ac.za > '69 Squareback Automatic The easiest and most common way to break a crankshaft on an air cooled VW is to overrev the engine. The easiest way to overrev the engine is to downshift to too low a gear, like from 4th to 2nd at an engine speed that is normal for 4th. Tim Dapper