FWIW- VW will accept those rod through case engines as acceptable cores. As long as the failure was mechanical from within, they take them.

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Condelli
Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:50 am
Subject: Re: Threw a rod pictures
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> In a message dated 28/01/2007 7:38:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> I finally got a couple of pictures of the rod came out of my
> 2.1 case on
> line.
> _http://new.photos.yahoo.com/vwbecida/albums/_
> (http://new.photos.yahoo.com/vwbecida/albums/)
>
>
>
>
>
> Very interesting ! Usually it's number three rod ! I have a
> quite similar
> looking engine in my storage of junk !
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank Condelli
> Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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