Cam And Water Pump

[Wazza5]

I have recently been advised that my overheating problem on motorways is due to the fact I need a water pump change.

I was advised that when changing the pump I would need a cam belt change at the same time. I was quoted about

[seatkid]

Actually sounds reasonable.

[zorgman]

having your pants down,

[howey]

40 mins is bloody quick, as the belly tray alone takes time to remove and replace, then doing the job, then bleeding the system, then road testing, wow you must be superman!

 

howey

[Mirez]

[jinksy]

cost me

[mashbury]

Sounds about right. Don't run it for any length of time with a broken water pump or you may soon end up with blown gasket or, much worse, warped head. Also worth checking that the electric circulation pump is running too.

[Audiman]

[zorgman]

is this

[Bigjeeze]

is this

[howey]

Zorgman

 

is pinning the pump with the locking tool not enough? what would the symptoms be if the dynamic timing was incorrect??

 

cheers

 

Howey

[zorgman]

what can happen is when they time it up with pin etc you need to pull the pump back on its spring tension to use the right teeth or the engine is retarded which norm cant be timed out unless you have vagcom and then it sometimes is not enough movement on pump,which makes starting a pig, this is only for mk1 non pd tho

good god 2 hrs to take mount and undertray off they must be blind, 4 bolts and 2 nuts the trays off approx 10-15mins and thats being lazy the left hand mount is only 4 or is it 5 bolts with jack underneath, rocker box 3 nuts, vent pipe pulls off, timing the engine is a twat on manual so just unclip the turbo pipes outaway and use a torch to find mark however if its just a swap locking cam should have everything about right place. as you can tell i hate people being ripped off over things like this. they get the times from autodata which is approx 4.3 hrs they take into account fag and tea breaks and working out why cars not starting as well i suppose