[Vwdiesel] timing belt and adjusting timing

[peter blake]

Joe,
 Thanks for tip, I'll look closely at the intermediate shaft
pulley whilst I'm mucking about down there.
Peter
--- On Mon, 11/14/11, Just Joe <stuff at wormshit.com> wrote:

> From: Just Joe <stuff at wormshit.com>
> Subject: RE: [Vwdiesel] timing belt and adjusting timing
> To: "'peter blake'" <pila47 at yahoo.com>, vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Date: Monday, November 14, 2011, 10:27 AM
> 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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