[Vwdiesel] timing belt and adjusting timing

[Just Joe]

My belt has the same desire to walk off the front of the engine... and I've
discovered my intermediate shaft pully has a gouge in the side of it that is
slowly but surely eating the timing belt.  I've only put 10K miles on the
car since I bought it summer of 2009 and I can visually see the belt is
narrower than it was when I bought the car.  Not to mention it leaks oil
like a seive at the crankshaft.  I doubt if I will get 25K miles out of it
before I have to replace the belt.  So you are not alone... 
  

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of peter blake
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:19 PM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: [Vwdiesel] timing belt and adjusting timing

  I'm about 90% convinced my pump timing is a little advanced.
So I decided to get adventurous and do a little Hagar tuning.
I pulled the timing belt cover because I at first thot that the
third bolt was accessed fm that side. What I found is that my
timing belt has a groove in it about a quarter inch in fm the
pump side and that the outside of the belt appears to be machining
itself against the belt tensioner flange. So I guess I need to 
replace the belt and tensioner and probably the water pump while
I'm there.  I've generally used autohausz az in the past for parts
and they have been very good but I'm open to suggestions if anyone
has a better supplier. I'm thinking that a new tensioner should cure
the self machining problem. Anybody have experience w this?
 As for the pump, I loosened all three bolts and tried to tap it
w a rubber mallet and couldn't get it to move one iota. Any tips?
Peter

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