It took two of us who are very mechanically inclined, (but not vw people) 10 hours to do the timing belt service on my 1999.5 jetta.
That included 1 hour running to town to buy replacement bolts for the ones we stripped then subsequently drilled out, and an hour or so making our own custom tools. One to hold the camshaft, and a special tool for counter-holding the camshaft sprocket.
we used a punch to remove the sprocket from the camshaft, this method worked quite well for us.
We thought we would have the job completed by noon, but we worked from 8 am until 6pm. UGG!
Everything went well. We replaced all of the valve cover bolts with hex heads, and also replaced the harmonic balancer bolts with hex heads. used the metric equivalent of grade 8 bolts.
Allen head bots suck!
i'll try to post photo's of our custom "tools"
That included 1 hour running to town to buy replacement bolts for the ones we stripped then subsequently drilled out, and an hour or so making our own custom tools. One to hold the camshaft, and a special tool for counter-holding the camshaft sprocket.
we used a punch to remove the sprocket from the camshaft, this method worked quite well for us.
We thought we would have the job completed by noon, but we worked from 8 am until 6pm. UGG!
Everything went well. We replaced all of the valve cover bolts with hex heads, and also replaced the harmonic balancer bolts with hex heads. used the metric equivalent of grade 8 bolts.
Allen head bots suck!
i'll try to post photo's of our custom "tools"
