Well, when I was changing seals all around my 1.6 Rabbit Diesel engine last summer, I removed these timingbelt pulleys, and to my surprise I found that camshaft pulley has no pin hole in the pulley, but the camshaft itself has the gap for pin. I thought, its crazy because the cam pulley _can_ start slipping even if its torqued to conical surface. But the crank had the pin, I think the diesels might have problem with camshaft (instead of crankshaft) pulleys. Anyway, result is the same no doubt. This is about 1.6 diesels, if anyone...
Later, -Nils ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: slipping crank sprocket? > This happened to me in august, we tought I needed to change the crankshaft. This is a big problem with the 1.9 deisels but my mechanic told me he never seen a 16v with that. I guess I had to be the first. All it cost me was 3 valves, I was lucky cause I had the car at idle in the shop when it happened. We couldn't figure out why the car never kept good timing. Now the car runs great, I got the head port and polish with 3 angle valve job. Hopefully this won't happen to many on this list. Maybe this is something we should check when changing the timing belt. > > --- > Rejean Langis > 91 Jetta GTX 16V > 84 Lapin GTI > [email protected] > > > _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
