AEL Cambelt

[philj]

About to embark on doing this tomorrow. Got vagcom ready for the pump timing.

Has the rad got to come out? Whats the best way to lock the crank? Any other tips?

Cheers

[spink]

take the bumper off and just undo both rad mounts at either side 13mm nut,then open it like a door from the left and rest the rad on something then you have more than enough access to get it there

best way to lock crank is with the special tool but you can make something up.there are some pictures on here somewhere,its essentially the same tool as for an s2

[Tony Stark]

The crank tool i used on ael also fits my 3b if that helps, made using large flat bar and an old wheel bearing cage with a slot cut in it.

Make sure you've got a proper viscous fan wrench or long thinned down spanner.

And a decent sprocket holder for the rear-most cam sprocket, the torque for that is 160nm or something.

[philj]

Cheers for the tips. Made a start on this, glad I did as the pulley was properly knackered and an older variant. The rubber's failed and it has a large rattle. Got given the wrong tensioners/rollers though, it was a Ruvelle kit from GSF, included both belts and supposedly the 2 tensioners and roller, but the roller and a tensioner are wrong.

I just took the allen key bolts off the viscous fan for the moment as although I bought a 32/36mm "viscous fan" spanner I can't seem to get hold of anything to hold the pulley still.

Anyway, I found on here somewhere a picture of someone using a 2" box section with 5mm walls about 5/6" long and a pair of 24" stilsons wedged against the floor, that worked a treat at getting the bottom pulley off, but untill I get the right bits thats as far as I got.

Also the laser cam sprocket tool is ****, although the pulley doesn't actually seem to have to come off to get the rear belt done?

[spink]

It needs to come off to put the cam locking plate into end of cam

[Tony Stark]

The front cam sprocket is on a taper so will be tight on the shaft once the bolt is loosened, use a punch through the back belt cover if i remember rightly but take your time.

The rear sprocket is not, its a parallel shaft so shouldn't be a pain.

[philj]

Cheers.

Got this done, yet the front pulley still seems to be wobbling, alot less but still not as much as my other 2.5TDI... Torquing procedure gone through with a new bolt. So... Worn crank sprocket?

Can chuck a video up when I get home.

Also, the car always had a hunt on idle. The other one had this when it turned up and coincidentally both have had cambelt jobs recently. The other just needed the timing backing off as it was set too far advanced, assumed the same with this one, but it doesn't start when all the marks are lined up. Advance it a tooth and it starts fine with the hunt, but is too far advanced to plot on the graph...