[Vwdiesel] timing belt r&r questions

[Roger Brown]

Dana Morphew wrote:
>
> Do you have the 210 clutch ass'y. installed?  When the engine is mated with the
> trans., match TDC notch on flywheel with pointer while the #1 cam lobes are up.
> Somehow I don't think this is what you are asking.  This with the 1.9  head and LUK
> 210 gas flywheel.  Is the "metal cover", you speak, the oil baffle?  It was easy to
> remove as I recall...just lifts off once the three nuts are removed from the valve
> cover, if I am remembering.  This is a "pre-'95 changes" 1.9, but I don't know
> whether that is important.

Yes, I know I could pull the valve cover and look (under the oil baffle), but was asking if there was an equivalent of looking
inside the oil filler cap that you could do on the 1.6.  And yes the flywheel TDC mark will get you halfway there as it turns
twice for the camshaft turning once.