T4 2.5 cam belt - advice

[Racemag]

thanks for that offer, I do appreciate it...thing is I'm in Vic and you're in Qld I think. The engine I have is a 2.5 petrol.

[Sunny43.5]

No problems Racemag in case you are stuck the offer is still open .

[smithy]

Hi Racemag is yours a petrol or diesel aplogies if I missed it somwhere . Let us know as I have a whole 2.5 petrol engine and gearbox complete sitting at the side of my drive way if you are stuck for some parts let me know .

Hi Sunny,
The gearbox you have, is it auto or manual?? I may be after a manual to convert my 2.5L petrol from auto.

Cheers,
Smithy.

[Sunny43.5]

Hi Smithy its a manual .

[Racemag]

I pulled the waterpump today - the bearings were stuffed. had a fuel smell in the coolant, but no water in the oil, so not sure if head gasket was gone. Replacement waterpump had a larger pulley, which was a bit odd. Bloody hard to find timing marks...VW should have a good look at a toyota!

[gecko2k]

Waterpump is most likely a revised waterpump if the pulley is different! The old style water pumps are well known to fail and VW was generally very generous when it came to an engine failure due to the pump going to ****. I think they continued to pay for pump related faults till 2003 or so. I might be wrong on that but I think you just got a revised version as mentioned above....


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[Racemag]

Thanks. The impeller is slightly different, so I'll give it a go. I wondered if the diesel and petrol had different pumps and maybe I had a diesel on.

[Racemag]

I spent an uncomfortable hour last night looking for the TDC mark on the cam pulley. All the instructions said it is a line cut into the back of a pully tooth...could I find it - no! I even went so far as to clean the back of the pulley with acetone. Now all of the pully teeth are shiny and no marks. The belt cover also looks different to the manual...so am I missing something? Did Australia get some thing different or is the mark different?

[Sunny43.5]

Is it a line or a dot mark like made wiith a nail punch I have to admit that I cannot remember when I did my sons what was there but there was something as its still going 18 months later .

[Racemag]

OK, head is now off and glad I did this. HG blown between 1-2 and 4-5. Bores are a bit glazed, but it is a bugger to get block out of a syncro apparently so not sure I have the energy for that.

[Racemag]

mark was on the back of the cam wheel, but it did not look like the manual/elsawin indicated. Now filled with white paint. Head was fine, valves fine and now reco'd and back on the block. VW do not stuff around with head bolts! Needed a breaker bar and extension to torque to yeild. Work is halting play, but will be back on the job in 2 weeks.
Not sure I mentioned on this forum but head bolts from VW were $15.70 plus GST each and from Justkampers were $2.10 each. There is no way I could afford to buy VW branded bits on such a cheap vehicle.
Are generic fluids available? power steering system needs a flush and new fluid, also oils for gearbox and rear diff.

[jets]

Are generic fluids available? power steering system needs a flush and new fluid, also oils for gearbox and rear diff.

When I changed my gearbox & rear diff oil it was a lot cheaper to buy genuine VW than Castrol when you compare like with like.

[Racemag]

You know I've never found that to be the case with Barloworld VW just down the road from me. But I'll give them a call and check out their prices.

[jets]

I paid $17.50/litre back on 17/02/11. Castrol from memory was over $30/litre. VW Pt. no. is G060726A2.

[Racemag]

Bloody heck. Followed Elsawin and put ex manifold on then intake and oh, what are these ten SS thick washers left over. So in short car seems to have had ten thick washers on ex manifold and Elsawin says just use nuts. So do I put the effort in and put them back on?