How to remove cambelt cover?

[Hamzilla]

Need to change my timing / cam belt which is also missing the middle and lower belt covers hence it being damaged (thanks 2 a local garage ).

However I cannot remove the plastic belt cover to get any further. I have tried rotating it, or pushing it towards the rear firewall but it is catching on a metal pipe and the brake master cylinder.

How do you remove the belt cover without breaking it?

 

[JDUB 20V]

Dude without sounding harsh, if you cant remove the cover are you sure you want to be changing the cambelt?

 

[Hamzilla]

If its so simple could you please put up a video so I can learn too.

I've seen a few videos of other people taking off their belt covers with ease on Golf/Jetta but they don't have their brake fluid tank and cylinder there or its been removed already.

A friend and I have wasted a lot of time trying all manner of ways to get it off.

 

[Captain Cupra]

Should pull straight up, you most likely have missed one of the recessed retaining bolts.

 

[JDUB 20V]

Its not simple thats the thing, i dont have a video as i didnt hire a camera man lol

Only pics i got -





If your not confident you can do it, id pay for somebody to do it with know how. Last thing you want is do it wrong then try start car and lose engine/top end etc.

Just my 2p worth.

 

[JDUB 20V]

Cambelt cover doesnt have retaining bolts/screws.

 

[Hamzilla]

The top cover (as far as I can see) only has two metal clips securing it to the side of the engine. Undoing those is easy enough but the lower back edge of the cover is catching when trying to lift it up and out.

 

[Hamzilla]

Its not simple thats the thing, i dont have a video as i didnt hire a camera man lol

If your not confident you can do it, id pay for somebody to do it with know how. Last thing you want is do it wrong then try start car and lose engine/top end etc. Just my 2p worth.

Thanks, see on an R its totally obstructed by the big pipe going to your turbo but I don't have that to worry about. Unfortunately the car is immobile as its got a big oil leak from the crankshaft pulley and I don't have funds to have a garage to do it for me.

The online guides at Audizine and VWVortex don't have their left hand side stripped out for a belt change.

 

[JDUB 20V]

Same principle on LC, just look at it as the big pipe going to your turbo is not there bud. Pm me your number il try to explain if you get stuck.

 

[Steely]

Its not simple thats the thing, i dont have a video as i didnt hire a camera man lol

Only pics i got -





If your not confident you can do it, id pay for somebody to do it with know how. Last thing you want is do it wrong then try start car and lose engine/top end etc.

Just my 2p worth.

that picture brought back some knuckle cutting memories of replacing my brake servo!,

|I found the 20vt one of the easiest cambelts to change, its just access thats the ball ache!

& totally agree, its not hard just logical thinking, get the timing wrong and you'll have 20 valves dancing on your bonnet,

if youre confident, do it, if not get someone who is .....


from what i remember though getting the cover in and out was a pain, take your time with it and you'll get it out, I also remember getting it past the mount and m/C after fitting the cambelt took a good 10 mins to find the right route,


a bottle of tippex comes in handy too, mark up the cam sprocket and bottom pulley and transfer the marks to the belt before removal, as long as you mark cam and crank you cant theoretically get the timing wrong. (you'll most probably already know this anyway!)

 

[JDUB 20V]

that picture brought back some knuckle cutting memories of replacing my brake servo!,

|I found the 20vt one of the easiest cambelts to change, its just access thats the ball ache!

Thats what i was doing lol Thought id do the cambelt etc while there!

 

[Hamzilla]

A year ago I asked a garage to change brake fluid and they broke the master cylinder and in replacing it have not bothered replacing the belt covers back on. Thats partly why I'm at this predicament.

 

[JDUB 20V]

Sounds like they clearly didnt have a clue, but how did they break the MC?

 

[Hamzilla]

I reckon they were pumping the pedal instead of pressure bleeding.

If you didn't already remove the servo do you think you would have been able to remove the belt cover?

 

[JDUB 20V]

Yes you can, i just did a cambelt change/turbo change on A3 1.8t too so know how yours will be. Done cambelt for mates LC too actually.