Disassembled Engine Starts Itself

Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by Whitbit

 

This certainly has a supernatural aspect to it. For an engine, on the "bench," meaning not installed in the vehicle, to start and rev, it would need the following:
1. A fuel supply
2. An electrical connection to the ignition coil
3. Some kind of device that could push and pull the throttle cable back and forth.

No way could this be a natural event. No, I will not venture to explain it.

All i have to add to this thread is this:

We have NO proof this event happened as described....we have no evidence this event even happened.

So.....there are MULTIPLE explanations that are NON supernatural to explain this...if it actually happened.

Do you have Biker friends ? A friend with another VW bug

Someone drove up by your garage on a loud bike reved it up and drove off ..

The motor in the chair didnt run .Your dogs were barking at someone..not a cold dead motor

I think it was Nibiru! It's a sign!! DUUUUUCK!!!!!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist. VERY unusual for sure. Call Ghost Hunters?

reply to post by loves a conspiricy


Calm down, no one here is claiming it's one thing or another. We're just having a light hearted discussion regarding the incident and kicking some theories around.

But I do agree that it quite possibly could be the work of Comet Elinin or whatever it's called. Anyone see that movie where all those cars come alive due to the comet that passes overhead killing all the humans? They were lead by a big truck with a gremlin face.

Let's look at the facts:
Move about comet brings cars to life.
VW engine starts when a comet is approaching earth.
Green gremlin truck in the movie leading the charge against humans.
VW made a car dubbed "The Gremlin".
The people in the movie liked movies.
We in real life like movies.

Coincidence? I think not!

Any one seen that film,
"Christine"

is it a diesel?
the heat and high pressure could have started it.
and diesel engine run till the fuel is cut of or runs out.

We had a children toy a few years ago that, even without batteries, would start playing the music it contained. The only explanation I could find was that some energy input was coming from either satellites, or space, maybe the Sun.

We thought of ghost for a while, but I think it was the above, in some way. Something shot energy in it. Maybe similar conditions were up for your engine to start?

reply to post by OccamAssassin


the initial spark, is the question, good deduction. Ok, well this is a stretch but, i'm wondering if it could have ionized. and I can't completely explain it but I'll do my best

example--> On the manufacturing floor a few years ago, Working with a temperature control machine which has a completely separate power source to test individual small computer chips which are tested on a test head, which obviously has it's own power source..

In order to put temperature on the chip to test it under temperature, a person HAD/MUST hit the touch screen to bring down the temp head over the test part.......THAT was the only way the temp head would come down was manually.

Me, my buddy & 2 engineers were standing there when I was about to hit the button to bring down the head.. when.....the temp head went down by itself~!! FREAKIEST thing I've ever saw with my own 2 eyes! LOL

however, we noticed that when my buddy hit the 'enter' button on the keyboard to start testing the chip, the test head would down automatically LOL.. I thought COOL ~! my jobs done LOL. but, the engineers said .. that the test head was ionizing the temp control machine and the deionizer on the temp machine need to be checked..

they replaced it and WALA it fixed it ..

I'm thinking this is what 'might' have happened..can you elaborate OA?

Originally posted by OccamAssassin

Originally posted by Raznva
NO the distributer is NOT connected to the alternator.A hot wire must go to the coil from the battery via the ignition switch.This is how the engine is turned off and on.

Although if the engine has a magnito type distributer it will produce spark anytime the engine is turning...

That still doesn't explain how the engine got turning in the first place

Some of the VW motors kill the engine by earthing/grounding the neg side of the coil. The distributor is often permanently wired to the alternator.

if nothing was hooked up and the motor was disassembled... it didnt happen plain and simple -_- unless its supernatural accurance

reply to post by NowanKenubi



Capacitors?

Well, after this many responses I am quite surprised no one has directly addressed the obvious here:

The OP never actually witnessed the engine running! The OP hasn't even gone into the garage since hearing this noise!

Personally, rather than jump to the conclusion that this dismantled engine was running on its own under supernatural powers, maybe you should go out and make sure that nothing is wrong or catching on fire or something? I know that if I heard a loud noise similar to an engine reving coming from a building that didn't have anything in it capable of making that sound, the first thing I would do is run out there and check and make sure everything is okay. Seriously.

It's simple: If you have an engine sitting on a chair with nothing connected to it to make it start...then it didn't start. You either heard something that came from near the garage but a seperate source (as one other person said) or else there is something very wrong in there and you need to check.

The Joe Cell is said to draw on Orgone energy. The fairly simple device uses electrically charged water as the "gate" or medium through which the aetheric energy is drawn from the surroundings and transferred to the automobile engine.

Link

reply to post by Dawged


Sorry to answer back later, but what are capacitors?

reply to post by Komodo


I can't offer anything as the only thing that I worked with over the years that ionisers the air is a spark plug.

I can't really see a spark plug going off on its own without the coil discharging through it.

Maybe it was just caused by the heat. Gasses in the cylinder expanded and got the crank to turn just enough to cause ignition. Its pretty far fetched but if there wasn't something inside the garage that could have caused a spark and started the freak event, I'm at a loss to explain the initial start up. The running its self is perfectly understandable though. I couldn't count how many times I've started an engine with a battery and then removed the battery while the engine was running.

Originally posted by shadowreborn89

Originally posted by OccamAssassin

Originally posted by Raznva
NO the distributer is NOT connected to the alternator.A hot wire must go to the coil from the battery via the ignition switch.This is how the engine is turned off and on.

Although if the engine has a magnito type distributer it will produce spark anytime the engine is turning...

That still doesn't explain how the engine got turning in the first place

Some of the VW motors kill the engine by earthing/grounding the neg side of the coil. The distributor is often permanently wired to the alternator.

if nothing was hooked up and the motor was disassembled... it didnt happen plain and simple -_- unless its supernatural accurance

The motor had been removed from the car but was still in one piece according to the OP.

VW's are pretty cool in the fact that you can unplug the wiring loom, remove the fuel line/s and undo a few bolts and the whole lot drops onto the floor in one piece. When I was an apprentice my boss could rip out a VW motor, give it a quick rebuild and bolt it back up in about four hours.

Any one ever seen the movie Trucks (TV 2000) or how about Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Just saying that with all the other strange and crazy things going on now days why not?

Originally posted by Sky watcher
reply to post by Whitbit

 

There is no way in hell that motor started without a supernatural influence. I know I am a 18 year Master Technician. The temps that would be needed to even fire off one combustion cycle is ridiculous. Most engines need to be absolutely perfect to start with minimal cranking.

And that's even if the story is true.I find it hard to believe it happened. I agree with someone else who said it was probably coming from another source,either inside the garage or nearby.I suppose anything is possible though.

reply to post by NowanKenubi


They store electricity.
Ive seen them as small as a finger nail and as big as roll of paper towels. Im sure there are bigger and smaller ones, those are just the ones Ive delt with while assembling control panels.

en.wikipedia.org...

The man that took the engine out in the first place, what does he say about this?

These things can be very puzzling, but it is a fact that noise can do some strange things and echos, reverberations etc, can make noise appear to be from one source, but actually be from another.

We all sympathize that this sound shocked you, and got the nerves tingling.

BUT, as you never opened the garage door, to actually see the engine running (or any neighbour etc), it is your imagination that has taken over your rationality. It happens all the time, its the Fear factor.

Be 100% absolutely assured.....Internal Combustion Engines DO Not Spontaneously start without Fuel, Spark and rotation. If this was the case, there would be Millions of reports of cars starting everywhere.......There Isnt, because They Dont.

An engine needs to be Turned over before it will start, either by electric stater motor, hank cranking or whatever, THEN it needs a carburettor (or injection) to control the fuel metering..ie open the throttle to mix the fuel with air. Then it needs a battery to provide spark (or magneto), etc etc. As other people have posted.

The Rational explanation is that a neighbour had a visitor, or car in his garage that was started, and the noise reverberated through your home. Heavy Bass sound waves can also travel thru the ground, so it may not even be the closest neighbour.

The Main "Problem" with the whole thing, is the "Assumption" that it was the engine in the garage.....without actually Observing any evidence. I guess even after the incident (sound) you were too spooked to look in the garage??
Peoples imaginations can be wonderful And scary things.

Dont worry too much, over it.

I was wondering if there were any updates on this.