3baudios
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- Joined
- Mar 20, 2008
- Location
- winston NC
- TDI
- 93 eurovan AHU (almost), 88Fummins, 01 alh golf, 91 toyota alh
Timing belt alignment question/water pump
Howdy all, doing the TBelt on my 00 ALH along with a radiator replacement, and what i thought was going to be a vein cleaning but ended up being a turbo replacement, the veins were smooth but the shaft did not spin freely, anyway i got the new (used) turbo ready and the new radiator in so now im doing the Tbelt, everything has been going fairly smoothly ( with the exception of a stripped harmonic balancer pulley bolt).
I have the motor mount disconnected with a jack holding the motor currently and as i try to get everything at TDC is where there seems to be a problem. When the IP,cam lobes, and FW marks all seem to be ligned up the camshaft lock bar does not want to fit, the cam needs to move backwards a few degrees. Then if i rotate so the lock bar fits i cannot see the FW mark anymore, but the lobes and IP hole seem good.
I have the harmonic balancer off and i see the 'bump' on the crank but i do not see any corresponding alignment bumps on the cover to make sure it is aligned. Could the car have run pretty well with it off a tooth?
This is my frist TDI timing belt, but if done dozens of timing belts on VW 8v, 16v, audi 10v, audi 20v which are all pretty similar motors and things have always lined up well.
Howdy all, doing the TBelt on my 00 ALH along with a radiator replacement, and what i thought was going to be a vein cleaning but ended up being a turbo replacement, the veins were smooth but the shaft did not spin freely, anyway i got the new (used) turbo ready and the new radiator in so now im doing the Tbelt, everything has been going fairly smoothly ( with the exception of a stripped harmonic balancer pulley bolt).
I have the motor mount disconnected with a jack holding the motor currently and as i try to get everything at TDC is where there seems to be a problem. When the IP,cam lobes, and FW marks all seem to be ligned up the camshaft lock bar does not want to fit, the cam needs to move backwards a few degrees. Then if i rotate so the lock bar fits i cannot see the FW mark anymore, but the lobes and IP hole seem good.
I have the harmonic balancer off and i see the 'bump' on the crank but i do not see any corresponding alignment bumps on the cover to make sure it is aligned. Could the car have run pretty well with it off a tooth?
This is my frist TDI timing belt, but if done dozens of timing belts on VW 8v, 16v, audi 10v, audi 20v which are all pretty similar motors and things have always lined up well.
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