[s-cars] hood latch

[Tom Green]

There is little to be concerned about on the timing belt replacement  
itself.  Once you have
horsed on the torque wrench until it clicked at 258 lb-ft you know  
that bolt is not moving.
You are not likely to leave the belt too loose and you would have to  
really be anal to get
it too tight.  Besides, the belt complains if it is too loose or too  
tight and you can peek in
the upper cover from time to time just to reassure yourself.

The many places I was referring to things going wrong are the parts  
you have to remove
to get to the engine front end.  Those errors are immediately  
noticeable because you put
parts back out of sequence, or left out a step here and have to  
remove something to get
all the bolts back in.  :-)

Tom

On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Theodore Chen wrote:

>
> --- Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> You could always put the coat hangar hook in the tool box, Teddy, and
>> save all that time looking.  :-)  Another Audi special tool.
>
> that's exactly what i did.  it hangs on the pegboard now.  i half- 
> expect
> something else to go wrong, such as the remaining plastic clip  
> breaking.
> the passenger side clip already broke and has been replaced with a  
> thick
> ziptie.  if i could, i'd add a ziptie on the driver's side but there's
> no obvious place to put it other than the hole already occupied by the
> ziptie.
>
>> Isn't it a great feeling to successfully complete the timing belt
>> replacement job successfully with so few problems?  The belt  
>> replacement
>> is a simple thing in itself, but there are so many details in gaining
>> access and then replacing everything--so many places to go  
>> wrong.  :-)
>> Congrats!
>
> i have to admit it feels good to get the job done, and now i know more
> about my car.  now i just have to keep my fingers crossed that the
> timing belt job won't suddenly go bad in the next few months.
>
> while i was poking around under the car trying to find the hood  
> latches,
> i also noticed that the passenger side motor mount seems to be  
> delaminating.
> so you guys who said the passenger side was probably bad just like the
> driver side were right.
>
> -teddy
>
>
>
>
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