hutchman
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- Joined
- Sep 6, 2005
- Location
- Virginia
- TDI
- 2006 Jetta TDI Pkg 1, 5 Spd, Graphite Blue / 2002 Jetta GLS, Black w/tan leather
[update] This is a thread I started when I finished my fist TB and the car started while I had the valve cover off doing open heart surgery and ran until I yelled for my wife to kill it when oil started coming up in the valve area. I was happy and put it back together and failed to pay attention to detail and over looked tightening two 10mm 12mm long timing shield bolts behind the harmonic balancer which lead me down this sad path. This thread is the saga of my cry for help, the info. to trouble shoot the problems, the solutions, parts & tools needed to rebuilding a ALH to be stronger, and more powerful that it was before!
Diesel Geek Delux kit, Metal Nerd tools, have TDI Club TB Change CD, Bentley Manual, and A4 TB PDF.
I really prepared for this .....
After new belt install, While the valve cover, vaccum pump, serpentine belt etc. was off the motor, I rotated the motor twice with the sprocket buster tool. Everything felt fine. Next I lined everything back up to see if the locks would go back on (valve and crank) and the TDC was where it was supposed to be on the fly wheel.
Next I had my wife bump the starter about four times while I watched the belt .... so far so good.
Next I had her start it and it ran for about 3-5 sec. before I saw oil come up into the valves and start to splatter.
Very happy I started putting everything back together. I had difficulty (I can elaborate more later if needed) with the motor mounts & TB middle and lower shields but I finally got it all back together.
I get everthing back together and now it won't start! I hit the key for the first time and it tried to crank and I thought I heard something like a belt squeek {update} and the motor will not crank now! I can't manually turn it with the sproket buster tool either ... it is up against something.
I inspected everthing and didn't see anything so I thought that maybe it was the serpintine belt since I had a few issues ... I used the jack method and my driveway is on a very slight incline so after several times jacking the motor up and down it got to where I couldn't jack it up as high due to getting too close to the firewall. I tried to pull my jack back but the jack slipped back and was being supported by the AC compressor.
I ended up just having to let the engine hang there until I could reposition the jack. Needless to say I was freaking out. I thought maybe I bent something in the path of the serpentine belt but everything looked OK.
Having said all that, I took the serpintine belt back off thinking something may have been stuck and tried to start the motor again and it will not crank. I tried to rotate it by hand but it won't move.
So now I'm stumped as to what to check next and what I may have broke. I was very careful to torque correctly etc.
Any ideas?
Discouraged!
Diesel Geek Delux kit, Metal Nerd tools, have TDI Club TB Change CD, Bentley Manual, and A4 TB PDF.
I really prepared for this .....
After new belt install, While the valve cover, vaccum pump, serpentine belt etc. was off the motor, I rotated the motor twice with the sprocket buster tool. Everything felt fine. Next I lined everything back up to see if the locks would go back on (valve and crank) and the TDC was where it was supposed to be on the fly wheel.
Next I had my wife bump the starter about four times while I watched the belt .... so far so good.
Next I had her start it and it ran for about 3-5 sec. before I saw oil come up into the valves and start to splatter.
Very happy I started putting everything back together. I had difficulty (I can elaborate more later if needed) with the motor mounts & TB middle and lower shields but I finally got it all back together.
I get everthing back together and now it won't start! I hit the key for the first time and it tried to crank and I thought I heard something like a belt squeek {update} and the motor will not crank now! I can't manually turn it with the sproket buster tool either ... it is up against something.
I inspected everthing and didn't see anything so I thought that maybe it was the serpintine belt since I had a few issues ... I used the jack method and my driveway is on a very slight incline so after several times jacking the motor up and down it got to where I couldn't jack it up as high due to getting too close to the firewall. I tried to pull my jack back but the jack slipped back and was being supported by the AC compressor.
I ended up just having to let the engine hang there until I could reposition the jack. Needless to say I was freaking out. I thought maybe I bent something in the path of the serpentine belt but everything looked OK.
Having said all that, I took the serpintine belt back off thinking something may have been stuck and tried to start the motor again and it will not crank. I tried to rotate it by hand but it won't move.
So now I'm stumped as to what to check next and what I may have broke. I was very careful to torque correctly etc.
Any ideas?
Discouraged!
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