[urq] Water Pump and Timing Belt was "help"

[Martin Pajak]

Yeah, $300 difference is a bit much considering the extra effort involved..
I would have payed max $100 extra labour for belt change.

HTH
Martin Pajak

http://www.quattro.ca

1983 Audi Ur-quattro (305,000 km) In storage
1985 Audi Ur-quattro (203,000 km) Euro spec. import mit 3B ;o)
1986 Audi 4000s quattro (270,000 km) winter car
1971 Porsche 911T (45,000 mi) all original



-----Original Message-----
From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of daniel darlington
Sent: January 25, 2005 14:14
To: Andrew B; urq at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [urq] Water Pump and Timing Belt was "help"


don't you have to pull the timing belt off anyway to get to the water pump?

Andrew B <andrew.sb at gmail.com> wrote:Due to weather conditions and lack
garage space I took my limping
quattro to a local foreign motors place, where they got it running but
diagnosed it as having a bad water pump. They wanted to replace that
and the timing chain.

Because of financial limitations, I only had them do the water pump.
Was this a bad idea? Can I do the timing belt later? I don't know
when it was replaced, am waiting to hear back from the PO. The car
has 100k miles on it, and the PO was meticulous. I may have a spare
one in my garage, and can probably do it at home under better
conditions, but what, pray tell, am I getting myself into? Should I
have just let him do it? The difference in price is about $300, which
I want to avoid, but I don't want my car to die on the way back to
Syracuse.

-A
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