[Vwdiesel] Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Another leaky pump.....

[Nate Wall]

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Prices for the tools (new) and parts sound about right.  Do the water
pump (front half).  It only takes about 15 extra minutes w/ the timing
belt off, provided you can get the pump half bolts (10 MM head, seven of
them) to break loose.  I've broken off the heads of these, but vice
grips got what was left.  The pump is about $40.  Small price to pay if
it fails on the road and you have a tow and have to take the T-belt off
again (the other option is to remove the A/C compressor and bracket to
get the whole pump off.  Something my Jetta has never had done in
250,000 miles!

Lee Hillsgrove wrote:

>
>
>   Seems like there is a bunch of them lately. Add mine to the list.
> :-((
>
> '85 Jetta 1.6 NA, 143K, car has been sitting since last Fall when I
> parked
> it for the winter. No sign of the leak then. Now, when I went to fire
> it up
> to do the front brakes and get it ready for the road, it took some
> cranking
> to get it started and I noticed some diesel fuel on the ground under
> it.
> There is a steady drip from between the distribution block and body of
> the
> pump while it is running which gets worse with increased RPM.
> Apparently it
> drips enough to make the pump lose prime over a long period of time,
> too.
> That has never happened to me before.
> I need to get the car running ASAP for wife to drive, as her car is
> out of
> commission due to a moose strike and the rental car has to go back
> soon. I
> wasn't expecting to find this or I would have got started on it
> earlier.
> I have a spare '86 pump to swap in, but none of the required special
> tools
> to do so. I know I will need the cam lock plate, pump lock pin,
> tensioner
> pin wrench, and dial indicator with adapter. Am I missing anything?
> Might as
> well change the timing belt while I'm in there, so that means a new
> belt and
> tensioner. I don't think I want to tackle the water pump or
> crank/cam/aux.
> shaft seals right now due to time constraints, although I know that
> now
> would be the time to do them.
> Best prices I have found online are from Adirondack  - $9 for the pump
> pin,
> $15 for the cam plate, and $125 for the indicator and adapter. The pin
>
> wrench can be found on eBay for $9.99 + $3.50. They also have the belt
> for
> $13.50 and the tensioner for $19. Sound about right?
> Any problem upgrading to an '86 pump with the idle speed increase? The
> cold
> start advance knob should be the same, right? Only difference I can
> think of
> is that the '86 car has a detent in the knob to help denote the
> difference
> between just timing advance and idle speed increase with timing
> advance. At
> least it feels like there is a detent there. Whoopee.
> Took the car out for a road test after doing the front brakes. I
> haven't
> driven it since I got my TDI in November. Where'd the power go? This
> thing
> needs a turbo!
>
> Comments welcome,
>
>   Lee
>   Oo-v-oO
>   PP-ASEL
>   KB1GNI
>
>
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