Hi all,
Long time no post as the 2002 Jetta TDI has been not had too many issues outside of cosmetic stuff. Anyway lately I have been hearing some light lifter noise ( not only at start up, but when idling after a highway run. The car has 215K on it and is about 40K into the current timing belt change. That said, I'd like to see if I can hold off doing the cam and lifters until the next timing belt change. I'm going to monitor the noise and dig into it if the need arises. So, like any good mechanic, I looked around for info on how to do the job. I did the last timing belt on it and was hoping to find a good write up for how to replace the cam and lifters both during a timing belt change and without a timing belt change. Maybe I used the wrong search terms, but all I could find was a ton of stuff on replacing the camshaft in a PD (specifically 2006 models), or putting in a BEW cam. Since this is an ALH engine, and I want to stay stock, no help there.
Can someone point me to a good write up on replacing an ALH cam and lifters? I do have a Bentley manual, but the procedure in there seemed kinda generic and vague.
Many thanks!!
Long time no post as the 2002 Jetta TDI has been not had too many issues outside of cosmetic stuff. Anyway lately I have been hearing some light lifter noise ( not only at start up, but when idling after a highway run. The car has 215K on it and is about 40K into the current timing belt change. That said, I'd like to see if I can hold off doing the cam and lifters until the next timing belt change. I'm going to monitor the noise and dig into it if the need arises. So, like any good mechanic, I looked around for info on how to do the job. I did the last timing belt on it and was hoping to find a good write up for how to replace the cam and lifters both during a timing belt change and without a timing belt change. Maybe I used the wrong search terms, but all I could find was a ton of stuff on replacing the camshaft in a PD (specifically 2006 models), or putting in a BEW cam. Since this is an ALH engine, and I want to stay stock, no help there.
Can someone point me to a good write up on replacing an ALH cam and lifters? I do have a Bentley manual, but the procedure in there seemed kinda generic and vague.
Many thanks!!