[Vwdiesel] TDI autopsy

[James Hansen]

Nice to see you haven't lost your sense of humor...

MMMMM. Finger tight bolts. very good.  Missing clamps  you say?  Ah, yes,
very good, yes. Ah, the rounded out capscrew, yes, excellent, with a can't
get it out stuck in it, even better...  junk in the t-belt cover! Stellar!
yes my confidence in the garden variety repair shop has not been moved a bit
above swamp sucking toad feeding pond scum. Perfect! life goes on...

Can't imagine where the tin bit comes from... it is a chunk of tin, you gave
only 2 dimensions.. like 22 gauge or so? Can't imagine where that was...
used as a tiny pry bar by some greasy fingers to get the belt cover aligned
then lost in the pit? damn...

well, just do it right, then it will be good again, and you can put it
behind you, right next to the garage owner and his tub of grease...

New motto for shop wall: "We stand behind our customers...."

later dude.
You need etka or anything like some scans of motor pics or photos, lemme
know.
-James



-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]On
Behalf Of Shalyn Shourds
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:57 PM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: [Vwdiesel] TDI autopsy


Not quite as cool as that Roswell tape, but it's as good as I'll get
without top clearance.

I finally tonight removed the belt from the TDI (after that whole timing
belt, shop replacement, belt tension failure, head eating, shop ducking
resposibility fiasco).  As far as I can tell, it's routed under
everthing but the left rear taillight.  So far, I've found two engine
mount bolts that were only finger tight and a radiator hose with the
clamp somewhere 6" down from the fitting.  My very limited confidence in
repair shops has sublimated.  I've also found out that if you round the
head on a capscrew holding the harmonic dampener on, all you have to do
is spend an hour with a dremel grinding that head off (with the broken
stub of the EZ-out in the socket of the bolt).

The only real peculiarity is that when I pulled the belt, down around
the bottom camshaft sprocket, there were a couple bits of schmutz in
there.  One piece of the belt guard (from way at the top where it turned
up broken at some point between my taking it to get fixed and when it
broke for good), and one piece of metal, about 1/2"X7/8" torn off from
somewhere.  Looks like a tab off something, about 3mm thick.  I can't
find or think of anything that it would correspond to.  But, it could
indeed have gotten in the works.   It has some wear marks on top of the
tear marks.  Somethign to think about, I guess.  Is there a clamp or
hasp right at the top of the timing belt cover?

Next step will be a water pump and then a whole lot of sticking back
together. Good thing most of the parts are dumped in a cardboard box
from the shop so I can mix and match them for hours.  If you park your
TDI near Dallas/Ft. Worth, there's a good chance you'll see my feet out
from under it trying to figure out where part X goes.

-Shalyn

'00 Jetta TDI.  Even better than an erector set.


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