oilhammer
Certified Volkswagen Nut & Vendor
Congratulations, you did the job WRONG! Long before the new belt is ready for replacement, the cam timing will be off (it is actually a bit oiff right now) and your intake valves will contact the piston tops. Nice.Josiah said:runonbeer - a quick thank you for the pic! I did the timing belt via l1o9s7t6's method... he was nice enough to call me up. Very simple really, and makes a lot of sense. It's just the "mark and pray" method, really, though I'm not sure where the praying comes in. Anyway, worked fine for me, and now I have a new timing belt, though it would have been nice to be able to do the cam seal, which is the disadvantage of doing it this way, as far as I can tell.
I've got some nice pics from a "mark and pray" method here, apart in my shop. Out-thinking a Gerrman engineer is a lost cause.