Rob Mayercik
Veteran Member
x2. That probably would have been an "ex-lax" moment for me...
Buy a damn skid plate.. trust me...
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Mongler98
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- 98 Jetta TDI AHU 1.9L (944 TDI swap in progress) I moved so now i got nothing but an AHU in a garage on a pallet.
when i ride motorcycle, i always shove a lump of coal up my ars, when this kind of thing happens, i get rich with diamonds!
I cut a sheep in two on a motorcycle many years ago. It cost most of the fairing, a fractured ulnar and radius and months to get the bits of sheep out of the exhaust headers , radiator and various other corners and crannies. A year later I was still finding bits of sheep in strange places. The bike stank for years. It was horrible.
And to redirect the thread derailment. A motorcycle magazine was taking photos of a bike jumping a rise. There were good sparks most landings. It was the oil drain plug grounding and backing out to the point where the bike dumped all the oil on the way home......
Mongler98
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- 98 Jetta TDI AHU 1.9L (944 TDI swap in progress) I moved so now i got nothing but an AHU in a garage on a pallet.
ain't mutton that can't buff out LOL
jmodge
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- 2001 alh Jetta, RC2 w/.205's 5speed daily summer commuter and 2000 alh Jetta 5spd swap, 2" lift, hitch, stage 3 TDtuning w/.216's winter cruiser, 1996 Tacoma ALh
They call them shin and forearm guards
So what is an alternative oil pan for the alh-- something off a PD? For example there are variants of the VR6 which have different pan heights varying by the model of the vehicle, and they are interchangeable.
Tdijarhead
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- 2003 TDI Jetta Daughters Car, 2001 TDI Beetle, Wife’s car, 2005 Golf TDI Mine, all 5 spds
PD and alh share the same oil pan. A skid plate being an item of necessity was what started this whole thread.
Something like this?
Rrusse11
Veteran Member
Driving out of Yellowstone a couple years ago there was a big bull bison coming up the road. He was ambling back to the park. Short of a tank, nothing would have prevented major damage if we'd have hit him. None of the guards/plates/bars are going to completely protect you or the vehicle in some circumstances. But something is better than nothing for the much more likely minor catastrophe.
KrashDH
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You can purchase hybrid pans (aluminum body, steel bottom) and it takes VERY minor modification (couple swipes of a file or 15 sec with a Dremel) to make them work on the TDI (They are technically for the gasser)
jettawreck
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Yes, they are very common on many "adventure bikes" most of which never go off road.
A great example is my recently added older
Suzuki V-Strom. Damaging the engine case (effectively the oil "pan") isn't much concern except in serious off road use (in which case you are on the wrong bike) but the oil filter and cooler are rather vulnerable even by flying debris and gravel/rocks thrown up by the front tire when riding unpaved, forestry or logging roads which is typical usage. A well made "protecting plate" is on order, but still waiting for it.
My GoldWing doesn't have a "skid plate" yet but the coolant recovery container is mounted underneath and often broken by road debris or poorly planned trailer loading ramp contacts. It's not on my list of things to get...
Sorry to revert to sidetracking the thread, but the skidplate choices have been well documented and debated many times.
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