Recent content by RegDunlop14

You’re correct. I broke everything down further last night and found damage in the exhaust port side of the engine. Looks like whatever went through the valve/gear did damage on the way in and the way out.

Forgot to take one of the rotary gear. It’s missing full teeth. The shavings are small. The gear in the crank seems to be in good shape.

I did split the cases and found nothing inside other than brass shavings. Any other possible causes? I don’t want to put it back together just for it to happen again.

Engine seized up on my 99 GTI a couple summers back. Decided to break it down and found that the brass rotary gear was stripped and the rotary valve was damaged. I’ve read that mostly this happens when the valve ingests something. When it seized I had just had the carb rebuilt a month or so...

This is a video of what the engine was doing before I took the jet pump off and the plugs out.

What video file formats are applicable to be uploaded here? Have a video of what the engine is doing that I can upload. Tried mov avi and some others.

Itll turn about 3/4” to 1” clockwise and less counterclockwise. Guess I’ll dig into it more and see if I can find an obvious cause.

Pulled the pump off tonight and still can’t turn the engine over by hand. Didn’t get to pull the shaft complete out because I ran out of daylight. If it won’t turn over by hand is it dead?

I’m assuming it should turn over fairly easily by hand?

This weekend my 1999 GTI died at 35MPH after about 5 minutes on the water. No sputter it just cut out and would not restart. After being towed in I checked the solenoid and it was good. When the start button is pressed the flywheel will move ever so slightly so it seems like the starter is...