Have you changed the belt since purchasing the car? I don't ever trust the PO on maintenance history and always change the timing belt before placing a VW diesel into service just as a matter of course. You can get the Bosch seal kits for a good price (better than many Bosch shops) from the seller angelofishes on eBay. He doesn't currently have the DGK126 up for sale, but in the past, I have e-mailed him and he has gotten them for me for a better price than Southwest Diesel which is the shop most local to me. Be sure to ask that he get the actual Bosch as he does have an unknown brand of DGK126 available. Southwest will also ship the kits if you want to go that route. The 17mm shaft seal is not included and if you want to get it, it is part number 1 460 283 312. As an aside, for anyone rebuilding a VW 1.6TD or AAZ pump, you can either get the DGK121 which is lacking the o-ring for the cold start assembly or get the 126 kit and purchase the aneroid assembly o-ring separately. The aneroid o-ring is 1 460 210 347.
I certainly never said to pull the crank sprocket or lock it and I don't think anyone else did either.
You should not tension the belt with the pump lock in place. For proper tensioning you need the cam sprocket loose, cam locked, pump unlocked and ALL slack moved to the tensioner area by rotating the pump CCW a few degrees and then back to TDC without going past. For proper tensioning on the 1.6, you also need the tension measuring tool.I would certainly take this opportunity to change the belt.
Looks like I found a local dealer who sells what I'm after. Turns out he gave me a new part number which is *just* for the cold start seals. Here's the number: 2460223001 ...
Quote from: acidtonic on December 08, 2014, 05:25:00 pmLooks like I found a local dealer who sells what I'm after. Turns out he gave me a new part number which is *just* for the cold start seals. Here's the number: 2460223001 ...Dude, my buddy can bring a full Bosch seal kit up to A2 today when he comes up. PM me if you are interested ($20). (No mainshaft seal. )
All I have said about the crank sprocket/belt alignment is that without having pulled off the crank pulley (not sprocket) and marked the timing belt to sprocket alignment, you cannot know what tooth of the belt is aligned with what tooth of the crank sprocket now that the belt has been loosened. Because, the belt to crank sprocket alignment is unknown at this point, your paint marks on the belt for the other sprockets are meaningless, misleading and paying attention to them could be catastrophic. Ignore the paint marks entirely and time the engine the correct way.
The green seals are Viton and are biodiesel resistant. The black ones may or may not be but generally you can assume not. They are fine with pump diesel though. Might want to try and impact screwdriver?