[Vwdiesel] lifesigns, cont'd

[jeremy]

How about some education here. What is VAG-COM? What does it do? Thanks.

--- "S. Shourds" <sshourds at flash.net> wrote:

> I got really lucky and the timing was in range when I got it warmed up 
> and fired up the VAG-COM.  I didn't have to adjust a thing.  That 
> VAG-COM is the best thing since home-made unsliced bread.  My concern 
> now is that there's a sound I don't remember.  I have all of the shrouds 
> off, but there's a distinct belt whine or some such sound coming from 
> the belt end of the engine.  I wish I could attach a sound file (or that 
> I had the hardware to do so) so this could be as sound-rich as an 
> episode of Car Talk.  It's audible from the cab over the combustion 
> sounds, the injectors, etc.  Is that just something I've forgotten about 
> since I haven't heard this engine run for two months?  I know the old 
> 1.6TD doesn't make any sound  like that.  I know about what pilots call 
> "automatic rough" when the engine always seems to start making this odd 
> sound just as you start to pass over a large body of water, but this 
> seems awfully loud for "normal". 
> 
> I'm a little worried, too, that the tensioner is slightly looser than 
> what it was when I started it up the first time.  Last time it got 
> looser (albeit a lot more) it was because the lower large roller bolt 
> had failed and the head died 30 miles later. 
> 
> I'll start taking short trips around the block and work my way up from 
> there, but considering my history with this car, I'm more than a little 
> paranoid. 
> 
> -S
> 
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