There should not be a keyway in the cam it should be a slot for the keyway off the camgear I just got done fixing my 2000 passat and well for the first 600 miles it was ok with a multiple misfire and a cylinder 1 misfire the person who scanned the car told me it was not the coilpack and i had timed the motor wrong by one tooth so being a fool i moved my timing 1 tooth just bent my valves by the sound of my motor and need to do this whole process over again… after all this i pulled cyl 1 coil
Carlos thanks for the reply I appreciate it I’m about 10 min from BES engines and I’ll have them check the guide tolerance the last thing I would want is to have to take it all back apart.
thanks again
Yeah dealer parts will end up costing more than a new car in many cases. There are tons of great online stores like fcpeuro, europarts and many others that all have great prices and everything is in stock. Even if I had a friend at a dealer i would not go through them because they can’t really help with the prices. Just get aftermarket parts.
Wow you really got an awesome deal on that! My friend is a certified Audi dealer mechanic and the parts he would order for the dealer are ofcourse pretty much inflated. But I was luck that he just happened to have a head unit he pulled off a junked A4. But I will look at ECS for parts in the future. Thanks for the info.
I paid I believe $40 for a brand new cam chain tensioner from ecstuning. For all of my gaskets, valve, belts, tensioners, tensioner roller, cam pulley, poly drive tool, head bolts, etc. I paid $400 shipped from ECS. I can’t imagine it would cost you $600 for just one part.
I too have made a video I plan to make available and it includes changing the timing belt. We found the above issues while trying to replace my timing belt. If it weren’t for my friend who is an Audi mechanic I would have been stuck. We ended up doing alot more work than just replacing the timing belt. But thanks for sharing!
I recently had gone through this same procedure on my 98 Audi A4 1.8T. The Cam Chain tensioner plastic guides had breaken off which caused the main Cam pulley toungue to break off. The same thing that happened to yours. I had to replace that main pulley as well as the cam chain tensioner which would have been extremely expensive to replace. That part alone would have cost me around $600 but I was lucky enough a friend of mine who owns a shop had an extra one he pulled off a similar engine.
It depends. Sometimes a valve can bend and destroy the guide with it. You may not be able to see this and it may appear to go together fine but it will make itself known when the car is running. I did not replace the guide, and many do not need to. You will need to thoroughly inspect the guides and maybe even have a professional look at them. If they are distorted they will not function properly. Cutting new seats probably isn’t necessary.
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i see you have the same problem as me. my dogs whine like that all the time pisses me off :/
and the ignition coil had a hole burned in the side of it
There should not be a keyway in the cam it should be a slot for the keyway off the camgear I just got done fixing my 2000 passat and well for the first 600 miles it was ok with a multiple misfire and a cylinder 1 misfire the person who scanned the car told me it was not the coilpack and i had timed the motor wrong by one tooth so being a fool i moved my timing 1 tooth just bent my valves by the sound of my motor and need to do this whole process over again… after all this i pulled cyl 1 coil
Carlos thanks for the reply I appreciate it I’m about 10 min from BES engines and I’ll have them check the guide tolerance the last thing I would want is to have to take it all back apart.
thanks again
Yeah dealer parts will end up costing more than a new car in many cases. There are tons of great online stores like fcpeuro, europarts and many others that all have great prices and everything is in stock. Even if I had a friend at a dealer i would not go through them because they can’t really help with the prices. Just get aftermarket parts.
Wow you really got an awesome deal on that! My friend is a certified Audi dealer mechanic and the parts he would order for the dealer are ofcourse pretty much inflated. But I was luck that he just happened to have a head unit he pulled off a junked A4. But I will look at ECS for parts in the future. Thanks for the info.
I paid I believe $40 for a brand new cam chain tensioner from ecstuning. For all of my gaskets, valve, belts, tensioners, tensioner roller, cam pulley, poly drive tool, head bolts, etc. I paid $400 shipped from ECS. I can’t imagine it would cost you $600 for just one part.
I too have made a video I plan to make available and it includes changing the timing belt. We found the above issues while trying to replace my timing belt. If it weren’t for my friend who is an Audi mechanic I would have been stuck. We ended up doing alot more work than just replacing the timing belt. But thanks for sharing!
I recently had gone through this same procedure on my 98 Audi A4 1.8T. The Cam Chain tensioner plastic guides had breaken off which caused the main Cam pulley toungue to break off. The same thing that happened to yours. I had to replace that main pulley as well as the cam chain tensioner which would have been extremely expensive to replace. That part alone would have cost me around $600 but I was lucky enough a friend of mine who owns a shop had an extra one he pulled off a similar engine.
It depends. Sometimes a valve can bend and destroy the guide with it. You may not be able to see this and it may appear to go together fine but it will make itself known when the car is running. I did not replace the guide, and many do not need to. You will need to thoroughly inspect the guides and maybe even have a professional look at them. If they are distorted they will not function properly. Cutting new seats probably isn’t necessary.
I have 5 bent valves on mine. Will I need to replace the guides and cut new seats for them?
Usually you would but there was no tension on this tensioner.. See part two for why there wasn’t any.
I would have compressed the tensioner before taking out the cam caps.