[Vwdiesel] Re-Ringing a Rabbit for beginners. -- ( good advice.)

[Erik Lane]

i do it differently - which for me at least is easier.
i put the belt on the tensioner and the cam pulley
first and then use all the slack i can pull on the
belt to slip it over the injection pump gear. then
check the gear to make sure i got it on the right
tooth and change as necessary. i find it MUCH easier
that way, even if i have to take it off to move the
pulley one tooth.

erik
--- Bart Wineland <bwinelan at allegheny.edu> wrote:

> 
> I had it on the stand out of the car all timed and
> turned it over with a 
> socket on the crank bolt at least a couple dozen
> times just to listen to 
> things and think about what all was happening and to
> be sure all was 
> right.  All was great and timing never slipped until
> I put the engine in 
> and put the starter to it.  That is when the cam
> pulley slipped and all 
> hell broke loose.     Hagar you said in a earlier
> post that the timing belt 
> should be easy to put on. Mine is not. I have to put
> the belt on just the 
> lip of the cam pulley, intermediate pulley and
> tensioner and hold my mouth 
> just right to get it to work on with my finger tips.
> It is a new Conti belt?
> 
> Bart
> 
> At 09:19 AM 10/12/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> >Remember to set Piston #  1  at TDC   before
> installing Head.
> >
> >If you forgot  no problemo   ---- do as follows. 
> Turn cam and crank at 
> >the same time
> >to get things right.
> >There will be a bit of touching valve and piston 
> --move slowly with two
> >wrenches.
> >
> >And  NEVER NEVER turn engine with the starter (Bart
> are you listening?)  until
> >you turned the engine over say 4 times by hand.  
> If valves hit you will 
> >feel it.
> >
> >I am afraid Bart forgot that part.     Remember cam
> rotates half the speed 
> >of crank.
> >
> >Hagar.
> >
> >PS: I got an engine where PO had installed head in
> the wrong posistion.
> >---   by LUCK  I wanted to see if it was rusted
> solid. So I turned it by hand
> >and got a valuable education.
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