a question of timing maintenance water pump late style timing belts ouch we ve been ... heads on passat s especially 1.8 turbo models there seem to be two main causes ... by sludge building up around the oil pump pickup clogging it the good news is ... past drop the oil pan and clean the oil pump pickup screen before you have to ... not getting any cheaper to repair your engine when the belt breaks we recently saw a ... 1.8 turbo head that bent all 20 valves when the ... thing to consider all the 4-cylinder engines now drive the water pump with the ... timing belt a seized water pump would break the timing belt so always ... replace the water pump when you replace the timing belt diesel ... timing belt all vw diesels `77-92 #sn1258 ... $23.95 1.9 diesel inc tdi golf/jetta/passat `93-98 # ...
and more common than the 1.8 turbo diesels have very little piston-to-valve ... it s just cheaper to replace the entire engine the standard timing belt has a ... rollers tensioner nsioner pulley water pump and of course the belt itself all of ... jetta and passat do not drive the water pump off the timing belt so the water pump ... timing belt failures occurring on tdi engines while we re not positive why this is ... we have a pretty good theory the tdi injection pump produces approximately double the ... fuel pressure of the earlier diesels that means it takes about twice as much ... force to turn the pump putting twice as much strain on the ... timing belt vw says change the belt every 80,000 miles ... too warning tdi owners read this 1.8 turbo timing kit t timing belt failure in any ...