12 V6 Timing Belt Questions (THanks, its done)

[Todd Phenneger]

Elliott (and otheres who replied)
  Thanks.  The procedure went quite well.  But In the middle of
the night I had to stop as I didn't have a gear/sprocket puller
to pull the camshaft sprockets off.  You have to use a puller as
you need to take off the cam holding tool to do it and cant
accidently move the cam so you need a perfectly straght pull.
  Also, I never got the crank seal changed.  Dont know why but
couldn't figure out how to get to the damn thing.  Grrr. The
sprocket for the T-belt ont he crank has to be removed but It
sure didn't want to pull off.  May have helped if I had the
right bolts for my puller. :-)  ( I always forget that it didn't
come with metric bolts and then remember at 9:05 at night right
after the stores close.  Grrr)
  Oh well, doesn't leak and if I had to I can get to it in 1
hour now.  I love that engine, so easy to work on.  Everythign
is designed to be easy compared to the early Audi's.  Event the
lower skid pan is connnected with 1/2 turn Dzus fasteners. 
Cool.
l8r
  Todd (wishing I had an A6 Bently that night)

--- Elliott Potter <epotter at velotel.com> wrote:
> > Todd Phenneger wrote:
> >   I actually want to do the timing belt on a 96' A6q. 
> 
> There's a description of this procedure (not too hard, btw) at
> http://eep.burdell.org/dev/12v/repairs/tbelt.php .
> --
> Elliott


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