[Vwdiesel] timing belt crank pulley torque

[82 Diesel Westy]

Nice one Chuck, I like your junkyard motto!!!!

Bryan from NJ

--- Chuck Carnohan <Chuck.Carnohan at itd.idaho.gov>
wrote:

>  Justin & Nick,
> 
> Nick's Ecodiesel sounds a little different but
> similar to the engine you
> are dealing with. I can't answer all of your
> questions but I have dealt
> with this type of pulley on my '84 Rabbit. The
> engine (1.6NA) came out
> of a wrecked '84 and appears to be a later Canadian
> VW Remanufacture
> from the paint job (green stripe, nothing else). So,
> the donor car was
> hit hard on the pass side wheel well and it clamped
> the chassis to the
> crank while it was running causing the pulley nub to
> shear and the
> valves to bend. No other damage. I got a new pulley
> and torqued it down
> with a cheater as hard as I could as I have no
> torque wrench that goes
> to 148!  This style is the "improved" design over
> the earlier keyway
> pulley.  I used oil on the threads and about a
> 1-foot cheater bar with
> my 1/2" breaker bar. I don't remember the size of
> the bolt but it wasn't
> a 12pt. Engine blocked-up on a table with my son
> helping me hold it. I
> used heavy fencing wire to tie the clutch plate to
> the block. Not the
> high-tech methodology but I sure as hell got it
> tight! With your size
> Justin, I doubt you would have to work as hard at
> it! I have now driven
> the car for over 10K miles without a problem.
> 
> I hope all is well with you and yours!  Good luck
> with the wrecking
> yard- I maintain that a good junkyard is a license
> to steal!
> 
> 
> Chuck Carnohan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com
> [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On Behalf Of mikitka
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] timing belt crank pulley
> torque
> 
> I'm not up 100% on here but I have a 91 Jetta ECO
> diesel and my pulley
> did come loose and yes it cost me a perfectly good
> brand new head and
> cam.
> 
> If you have the set up I'm thinking about with the
> twelve point bolt
> then yes that is the torque but my Bentley went
> farther as to the point
> once you set the torque to the 148 lbft then you
> have to turn the bolt
> half a turn more. Now that was interesting because I
> had to block the
> crank with a piece of wood between the crank journal
> and the block up
> inside the engine to keep it from rotating. At least
> it is easy to take
> the oil pan off.
> 
> Nick
> 
>  
> 
> I am installing the timing belt crank pulley on a
> 1.6 td.  It is the
> crank style that has a notch in the end of the crank
> and a nub cast into
> the pulley as a key.  Two questions.  is this a JK
> or CY engine?  The
> engine has a hydraulic head and my Bentley doesn't
> cover the hydraulic
> head engines and I want to make sure the torque of
> 148 ft lbs with lubed
> threads is correct (14 mm bolt).  Is there a
> different procedure than
> what is in the Bentley manual?  I remember there has
> been some
> discussion about this style of pulley coming loose
> and ruining a
> perfectly good crank.
> Justin
> 
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