WTB: Intermediate Shaft and Pulley

[riddleyo]

I need an intermediate shaft and an intermediate pulley for the 1.6 diesel engine ASAP.

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[subsonic]

What happened to yours?  I think the shaft is the same for all the vw 8V engines.  someone might need to back me up on that though.

[Quantum TD]

What happened to yours?  I think the shaft is the same for all the vw 8V engines.  someone might need to back me up on that though.

The shaft itself is the same for the early cars (1.6, 1.7), but the gear on the tip is different. On the gassers, the gear is reverse-rotation to run the distributor. Frankly, I'm not sure how it would affect the old Rabbit-style vacuum pumps, but it definitely would not work with the vane-style pumps. But, you'd have to reverse the gear on the vacuum pump to make it work as is.

For schnits and giggles, I compared the PNs on two shafts I had: one a 1.6 gasser, and one a 1.6 Diesel. The PN stamped on the shafts were exactly the same, but there was the difference in the distributor/'vacuum pump gear orientations. It looks like the gear is "press to fit", or heat-fit, like the gears on a flywheel. So, if you were in a pinch, and had an old gasser shaft laying around, you probably could heat the end gear till it fell off of both shafts, and then install the diesel gear on the gasser shaft.

Good luck either way. I'd sell you a shaft, but I'm already short 2 from doing the same job just this week.

[riddleyo]

What happened to yours?  I think the shaft is the same for all the vw 8V engines.  someone might need to back me up on that though.

When I removed the intermediate pulley, my gear puller took a chunk out of the pulley. Then when I removed my intermediate shaft, a chunk of metal fell off from it... Just my luck!

For schnits and giggles, I compared the PNs on two shafts I had: one a 1.6 gasser, and one a 1.6 Diesel. The PN stamped on the shafts were exactly the same, but there was the difference in the distributor/'vacuum pump gear orientations. It looks like the gear is "press to fit", or heat-fit, like the gears on a flywheel. So, if you were in a pinch, and had an old gasser shaft laying around, you probably could heat the end gear till it fell off of both shafts, and then install the diesel gear on the gasser shaft.

Thanks for the info. I will take a look at my vacuum pump gear when I get home to see if I can reverse the gear. I saw some gasser intermediate shafts on ebay that may work. But I would rather see if anyone has a diesel intermediate shaft before I start reversing my gears.