Friday, April 24, 2009
iPhone Development
I haven't updated this blog in a long long time. I am now doing contract iPhone development. Contact me if you need iPhone development done.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Jetta VR6 serpentine belt replacement
My friend was writing about issues with replacing the Volkswagen Jetta Serpentine Belt on his blog:
DIY Car Maintenance and Repair
It was my car he was talking about. Now I am not too mechanically incompetent, I have built robot parts in college, I know what a torque wrench is, but that timing belt was a huge !@#$@# pain in the ass.
The following things happened:
1) The belt the shop sold me was the wrong size. It was about 1 cm too short. This caused me several days of grief trying to fit the damn thing on. I couldn't tell if I was just too wimpy to muscle the belt on or if there was a different issue.
2) There is no f* space between belt and a plate separating the wheel well! Do not try to do this only from the top of the car. You will have to jack the car up and pull the plastic mud guards off the bottom. The correct way to do this is to loop the two bottom (camshaft, power steering) pulleys and then push it though between the coolant pump and A/C compressor pulley. Props to Autowerkstat for telling me about that. Because everything else has a lip except for the coolant pump pulley, you probably want to get the rest seated and do that one last.
3) The alloy tensioner that you use the M8 x 1.25 screw on is the softest !@#$ piece of crap there is. If you breathe on it hard, the thread will strip. Do not do as I did and strip the thread out of that thing, it will cost you about 100 bucks to replace that if you do. Grease up the screw before you insert it and also remember that if you undo the tension too much then you will trap the belt between the tensioner pulley and the coolant pump pulley.
DIY Car Maintenance and Repair
It was my car he was talking about. Now I am not too mechanically incompetent, I have built robot parts in college, I know what a torque wrench is, but that timing belt was a huge !@#$@# pain in the ass.
The following things happened:
1) The belt the shop sold me was the wrong size. It was about 1 cm too short. This caused me several days of grief trying to fit the damn thing on. I couldn't tell if I was just too wimpy to muscle the belt on or if there was a different issue.
2) There is no f* space between belt and a plate separating the wheel well! Do not try to do this only from the top of the car. You will have to jack the car up and pull the plastic mud guards off the bottom. The correct way to do this is to loop the two bottom (camshaft, power steering) pulleys and then push it though between the coolant pump and A/C compressor pulley. Props to Autowerkstat for telling me about that. Because everything else has a lip except for the coolant pump pulley, you probably want to get the rest seated and do that one last.
3) The alloy tensioner that you use the M8 x 1.25 screw on is the softest !@#$ piece of crap there is. If you breathe on it hard, the thread will strip. Do not do as I did and strip the thread out of that thing, it will cost you about 100 bucks to replace that if you do. Grease up the screw before you insert it and also remember that if you undo the tension too much then you will trap the belt between the tensioner pulley and the coolant pump pulley.
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