Need 1.6D Camshaft

[steevz]

I just broke my 1.6D camshaft tonight trying to get it out of the sprocket. My pullers arms were too short and broken a some of the round end piece. Need new one asap.

[guy plain]

where in BC  are you? i have one from a 91 1.6 td i may part with....

[guy plain]

do you need the cam shaft or the pully? or both?

[Toby]

Pullers take a tremendous amount of force to unseat a taper. A mild amount of pressure and and a rap on the puller bolt is highly effective. In the case of a VW diesel cam you NEVER need a puller. Perhaps in the future you should wait until someone responds to your posts before you proceed. Getting the cam sprocket off takes literally half a second. Being ham handed gets expensive. How in gods name did you break the cam, BTW?

[R.O.R-2.0]

Toby, you got a cam to sell or just think you haven't pissed on him enough in the other two threads?

toby and i both told him how to get it off THE RIGHT WAY. then he goes and breaks it. so, hes obviously great at following advise.

[guy plain]

hell i had a cam to sell . he didnt reply lol ...... cam and pully..... i cant see how the cam broke....i can see the pully busting....oh well its all part of the learning curve lol we all do things different.... mainly when its something we have never done before.... a puller sure sounds and looks like thew right thing to use..... if you didnt know any better.... and a hammer seems so wrong... but it is the right tool for the job.... lol

[R.O.R-2.0]

nah, i told him in a different thread, a while back, about backing the bolt out and hitting the back side of the pulley.

pullers DONT work good on tapered shafts. usually the piece you are trying to pull, deforms a TAD BIT, and it locks it on the shaft even tighter. ive broken a puller from a tapered shaft.

tie rod ends are my favorite. people always try and pound them out with the nut still on the threads, or just smack the threads with a hammer. my friends have tried for hours to get tie rod ends and ball joints before, and then i walk over to it, smack it hard, once, on the side of the piece, then they look at me like i have 2 heads.

[ORCoaster]

Which one of you guys are going to go get the keys from this newbie?  I can't believe this multithreaded story.  Kind of a super Mr. Murphy come to visit.  Oh, no send him some bells.  for the u know whats.

[guy plain]

he,s not that bad... seen alot worse on the goldwing forum.....every one has a learning curve .... soon he will know no ones really BS,ing him...... and we all are here to help in our own way lol

[ORCoaster]

Learning curve, yep, I do it all the time.  Maybe if I could remember sh** I wouldn't always be learning.  But what fun would that be.  Most of my learning comes from my mistakes so I expect this gentleman to be learning big time on this one.  Including like you said, no BS just helpful folks trying to be, well helpful.

[maxfax]

It could always be worse..  About 20 years ago a guy moved into the area and opened an import shop.. He came here from Germany, he had a funny mustache, and his name is Klause.. IF that isn't enough to make to make you trust him with your German car he also has a white coat with ASE patches... 

A couple years ago when ULSD hit the stations, and everybody's pump started peeing I noticed that I started to get a couple cars with resealed pumps and new timing belts with tracking issues..  The cause was bent cam and/or IP sprockets.. I knew where they had the work done and being somewhat of a noob to the VW diesel world myself I thought that maybe this was something that could be easily done.

One day Klause came to visit me at my shop. He was driving his Audi, wearing his jacket with the ASE patch and sporting his funny mustache.. He got a lead that I had a bunch of VW parts about, and wondered of I had a junk head with a good front cam cap, a cam and sprocket..

Apparently he was removing sprockets with a big ole prybar! On this particular car he broke not only the cam, but the front cam cap on the head..

I've often wondered how he made out with that one...

[rabbitman]

That's crazy!!!!! Seems like anybody could figure out that PRYING isn't gonna work too good.........

To get my IP pulley off I use a puller and after it's tight put a screw driver between the pulley and IP mount and give it a tap, doesn't take much.

[Toby]

Even easier is to give the big puller bolt a sharp rap. That is all I ever need.

[steevz]

I found a cam locally. Thanks though guys. I tried the rapping on the pulley. The tapered part snapped off inside the pulley.

[ORCoaster]

Now that is on there.  Welded?