Carnage Pics: The Death of Smokey Eddy's Jetta

[JerryGTD]

Sorry to hear of your loss. I'm sure with everyones help here you will be up and running in no time.
 As far as not finding the intermediate shaft bearings, you might be surprised to find them still there. I bought an 85 Jetta TD with an engine in the same state of disrepair. Same location of the hole in the block. Broke rod. Shattered intermediate shaft.
 What I did find was a chewed up intermediate shaft front bearing which is what I attributed the catastophic failure to.  Maybe the PO of the vehicle was running with a too tight timing belt.
Anyway, good luck with the rebuild. I too await the results of the autopsy. 

[arb]

Sorry to hear of your loss. I'm sure with everyones help here you will be up and running in no time.
 As far as not finding the intermediate shaft bearings, you might be surprised to find them still there. I bought an 85 Jetta TD with an engine in the same state of disrepair. Same location of the hole in the block. Broke rod. Shattered intermediate shaft.
 What I did find was a chewed up intermediate shaft front bearing which is what I attributed the catastophic failure to.  Maybe the PO of the vehicle was running with a too tight timing belt.
Anyway, good luck with the rebuild. I too await the results of the autopsy. 

Jerry sounds like he has a medical or law enforcement background :-)  Like me :-D

[Smokey Eddy]

Uhhh
so i took the valves out and they slide perfectly in and out - any valve, in any valve guide...

tell me what im doing wrong.
shouldn't two of these valves be messed up?
will post pics soon.

[Runt]

They may be alright.  I'd be a little surprised, but these heads smack the valves straight on, so they dont bend them, exactly.  I'd use a set of calipers, and check lengths of the two that smacked against the others to see if they got shortened or mushroomed.
I'd replace the two valves anyways, it would really suck to drop a valve after all this.

[Smokey Eddy]

yes it would. I will replace the two valves that CLEARLY smacked the pistons. Upon closer inspection i saw that the other piston in the middle pair had valve to piston contact. very minor.