You might want to have them check the crankshaft's endplay and retorque the heads and case nuts (or do that yourself, easy if you've gotta torque wrench and facilities to pull your engine). Ask them to tell you how far out your valves are (as in right on, a bit out, or miles off),
when you get them done, that may help in determining how bad things are. How does the engine sound now, after you've gotten new oil in there? Are you running with a significant loss of power or does everything feel all right? Does it leak oil? Did it leak oil? No use worrying about what's already done -- just figure out how to deal with it and do it. Listen to your engine and compare it to a well running (and similar to your engine, exhaust specifically) VW engine.
Next time (engine wise), I'd say start from scratch with a mexican or
brazillian long block, or some new one somebody could build for you (or you could build one for yourself...).
-Kevin[/quote:895c0bb9f7]
The mechanic at V-Dubs said when he adjusts the valves he is going to retorque the heads, honestly it sounds and feels fine. I have not noticed any loss of power. From reading what other people posted it don't sound like it should be running at all but it is still strong, just needs the valves adjusted. The engine is a brand new case all internal parts were brand new with about 3000 miles on them. Oil changed once a month faithfuly. There was alot of belt dust on the generator, carb, and engine case. So it would be a guess, maybe it was able to turn the Generator for a little bit before it completely shredded? I don't know. But I will know more once the mechanic calls back. I hope to have it back next Thursday. They are pretty busy up there. No oil leak before, haven't noticed any since either...but I have only driven it from 7-11, where I drove it when the belt shredded, to my home which is 20 miles. Changed the oil and drove it the 50 miles to V-Dubs in Irving which is a total of 70 miles. Don't want to put to many miles on it until the guy checks it all out.