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Engine Specific Info and Questions => TDI Engine -General Info => Topic started by: 96jetta on December 06, 2008, 11:32:20 am

Title: HELP!!!
Post by: 96jetta on December 06, 2008, 11:32:20 am

i changed the head guasket and the timing belt plus the tentioner, every thing is on perfect mark but it still doesnt run like it did at all (if it runs at all). as muchas i play with timing and pull every thing apart it still doesnt like life is there any one in the cambridge kitchener/waterloo area that could give me a hand?
                                                thanks Geoff

Title: HELP!!!
Post by: shegel on December 06, 2008, 08:13:33 pm

find somone with a vag com and have the timing checked the timing is very finiky it was said that "if you see the pump move you probably did and it you went too far." meaning that you really need the vag com to make sure its dead on

Title: HELP!!!
Post by: 96jetta on December 07, 2008, 12:24:12 pm

do u know of any body in my area who has one?

Title: HELP!!!
Post by: Vincent Waldon on December 07, 2008, 01:59:43 pm

You have an IDI diesel not a TDI so you need to set the timing the old fashioned way, as per the link I sent you on your other thread. :wink:

Title: HELP!!!
Post by: 96jetta on December 07, 2008, 09:03:30 pm

ya relized after i posted it that it was in the wrong form lol