camshaft carrier caps?

[SpanishS2Avant]

i am rebuilding my head and just wondered about the camshaft carrier caps and which caps in the right sequence and right way round. 1-10 does anyone have any ideas?

[mcandmar]

They have numbers on them, Pic below will show you the direction, beveled edge facing the rear of the car, and the rear most two have a flat top. I dont have any closer pics but you may be able to figure out from these images which number goes where...



Mark.

[mcandmar]

[iain1067]

Ermm what you should have done was to mark the caps so that they went back on in the right sequence, i read somewhere alongtime ago that they are line bored to fit the actual camshaft and therefore wasn't advisable to use caps off a different engine. Correct me if i am wrong someone, it's in the dim distant past that i read that.

[mcandmar]

Correct, there mounted on the head then machined. Just remembered there is a diagram in my Bentley manual showing which number cap goes where so if your still stuck let me know and i'll dig it out....

[iain1067]

As an aside i do know of people that have cracked a cam cap by over tightening it, so be carefull, and the same people went down to the scrapyard and got one off another car, worked fine so i guess there must be a little tolerance in these things.

Iain

[iain1067]

Sorry more info, they only go on one way too

iain

[Jamo]

As an aside i do know of people that have cracked a cam cap by over tightening it, so be carefull, and the same people went down to the scrapyard and got one off another car, worked fine so i guess there must be a little tolerance in these things.

Iain

The caps are inline bored on the S2 so theorectically it's new head time if the above happens

[iain1067]

I am in no way recommending the use of other caps, just something a friend did on another audi engine.

Iain