Audi 200 timing belt tensioners???

[Gerard]

Hi!

Stupid question of the day: does the 1989/1990 Audi 200 MC engine have
timing belt tensioners or not?

As far as I know the belt is tensioned on the water pump, runs around
the crank pulley and then the cam sprocket/pulley. Nothing inbetween.

Basically, it is like this. I entrusted this car to my mechanic back in
1999. He pulled the motor, disassembled it and showed me the wear on the
block. I bought a good sub-assembly from someone through him. This
included everything under the block, except water pump perhaps. He
disassembled both engines apparently and the head and the good bits went
to my engineer for wear checking and for the rebuild. I took forever to
get parts. I could then not get my mechanic to commit to doing any of
the work. A long story ensued and ended up with me fetching my old
engine bits from him along with the gearbox, etc. The engineer is also
unimpressed with this guy. Mechanic has been sued by others in the last
year and is planning a getaway to Australia. The engineer is in the
process of finishing this motor now. Many deadlines have come and gone
and I have the feeling the damn thing is just sitting there. Many parts
seem to have not been handed back to me or to my engineer by the
mechanic. I mean, I'm missing my camshaft sprocket! I've disassociated
myself with the mechanic so his story is just that he's handed all that
stuff back to me, and that isn't the case. I also feel this engineer,
who honestly is way overworked at the moment, is stalling with these
stories of missing belt tensioners. If he'd done anything with this
engine then he'd have spotted that stuff missing and at least have
called me. When I mentioned the water pump story then all of a sudden he
started to catch on. The mechanic tells him that those extra tensioners
(as on the 4k 4-cylinder) are definitely part of the setup. Apart from
all that I had to put money in for a new oil pump as the 2 units handed
to the engineer were total junk. Engineer told me he had to go with a
brand called "Europart" or something like that as the supplier of the
pump I initially sourced of the brand "Fuba" (or something similar) has
told him that they have had endless comebacks on those pumps and the
Europart thing was best. Oddly enough it is some $25 more expensive.

What a ride!

Sorry for WOB.

G.
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gerard at poboxes.com / http://64.176.6.234
q-list info: 1989/90 200 (mac13a MC-1)