Did you remove the cowling? (The metal ‘tray’ part between the windshield and the rear of the hood seal. It gives you a lot more room. You take the intake off first.Thank you! I’m trying to get the cylinder head off to replace the gasket, I’m not quite sure how to attack the back side of the engine to remove the intake and exhaust. Someone already removed the egr cooler, and blocked it off. Does the intake have to come off first?
remove the tensioner stud before removing the head?I just did this job. Removing the intake and turbo is not hard and I recommend doing it before taking the head off. You’ll be fighting the tensioner stud too.
FWIW this is the order I use:Does the intake have to come off first?
Perfect! Especially that small heat shield.FWIW this is the order I use:
From the top:
From the bottom:
- small aluminum heat shield on the passenger side bolted to the exhaust
- the intake
- the oil feed at the top of the turbo
From the top again:
- lower turbo oil drain
- bottom turbo bracket
- exhaust flange
- the turbo/manifold itself, taking care not to lose the short spacers behind each exhaust bolt
make sure that your head is decked properly and the valves reseated properly.Coolant pressure being forced back into the bottle. I changed timing belt and water pump, thermostat, radiator, and heater core. After all that it was still displacing coolant. When I pulled the head , the gasket was shot.
So it was obvious when you saw the old gasket? Got photos of it ?I probably should have mentioned I just bought this car with 271k on it.
Yes, but it's hard to explain. I click on my userid, then click on a my username again on the popup, then I can access my photos, then albums, and when I view an album, there's a button to 'add media'. From there I can post another photo into my album and when I do so, it gives me a link to copy that I can then paste into a message.I’m kind of an idiot when it comes to adding photos, do you know how to add a photo?
Then you are in good hands.I dropped off the head at German Auto in Phoenix. They are tdi specialists. Everyone in my area says if I don’t bring it to them I’m an idiot. Lol. Should be a week before I get it back.
Yay!Got it all back together. It runs amazing!