[Vwdiesel] timing tension

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

  Doubt it.  :-(  The car was a pit.  Dirty and unmaintanied.  
I'm sure the owner simply expected the car to run when he 
got it back and it did.  I've had others that were less neglected 
that were way more thrilled that it was running again simply by 
putting in a new head gasket, injectors or just setting the 
timing right and a glow plug or two.
    Loren

In a message dated 11/1/2007 7:58:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dieselwesty at yahoo.com writes:

> That would about get any VW head hooked on diesel.
> 
> Cool story.
> I bet the owner was just as blown away!!!!
> 
> --- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >In a message dated 10/31/2007 4:15:08 PM Pacific
> >Daylight Time, 
> >tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net writes:
> >
> >>In fact, the amount your belt stretches over it's
> >life will affect the 
> >>timing more than this. And, I certainly don't
> >reste mine during the life of 
> >>the belt. Don't recall VW or Audi recommending
> >this either.
> >
> >  Been a long time but I THINK there is a maintence
> >interval 
> >for setting timing in between belt replacements.  At
> >least on 
> >the 1.5, 1.6 diesels.  Worst one I saw had 138K
> >miles on the 
> >never-been-touched car.  Belt was slappy!  New
> >injectors, 
> >some glow plugs, a new T-belt and a couple hard
> >starts later 
> >and it was as happy as any other diesel I'd worked
> >on at the 
> >dealer!  That was about when I decided I REALLY
> >wanted one!
> >   Loren
> 




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