timing belt

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

--- Blake Irvin <blake@clockworm.com> wrote:

> i've heard that the timing belt breaking on a 16v can be
> pretty bad -  
> what can i do to minimize the possibility?

It's supposed to be a regular scheduled maintenance item. 
I do mine every 2-3 years or 40k miles.  VW recommends 60k
between changes, but I've heard an occasional story of them
breaking before then.

  can i do a
> chain?

Nope.

  what  
> replacement belt is best?

Call up Mike or Mark and order a 16v timing belt AND
tensioner.  (The tensioners eventually go bad and lock up,
destroying the belt and....)
 
> btw, i think i've established for sure that my fuel pump
> is bad.   
> took the wires off of the pump (after much cursing) and
> connected  
> them to my voltmeter - then bridged the relay and got
> 11.89v - which  
> seems perfect considering all the cranking i've done with
> no actual  
> starts to fire up the alternator.
> 
> so i guess it's time to shell out the 170 for the GAP
> bosch pump.

Did you try just jumpering the relay to see if the pump
would run?  (Sorry, I've been off list for over a week.)


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'81 Scirocco S               '86 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v             '88 Scirocco Slegato 
'96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.


		
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