Well guys.... Heres a little update. It was a bad water pump. Real bad. The car just rolled over on 145k. The original owner never had the original timing belt and water pump replaced. After taking everything apart, I realized how lucky I was that the pump was the only thing to go. The belt was severely cracking.
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It is still a really great product that will last longer than an ordinary belt.
Never heard of them before, but I just installed a Gates Racing (blue) timing belt on my 2.8L Passat.
Well to clarify. I just bought a belt from the dealer and it is a gates. So if your belt looks pretty beat up then its stock. I would change it asap as others sugested. Its cheaper in the long run.
They haven't been out long enough to give concrete evidence. I will say that RAI's clearly reselling a belt made elsewhere so who knows what you're getting and Gates has a long track record for selling pretty tough belts.
All done! Timing belt, TB tensioner, idler, water pump and expansion tank are changed and coolant flushed. I forgot to do thermostat, but it was not necessity but rather preventive.
I changed with new belt but it is also a half tooth. It always lines up with cam cover arrow just at the line at the end of the tooth rather than middle of it at tdc.
The tab that the cam gear has to spin the cam, snapped off the gear. Even though it was in time, the gear just spun on cam and didn't spin the actual cam.
i'm running a gates kevlar timing belt on my car with integrated's mechanical tensioner kit and there's a section of the belt that seems to be shredded off about a quarter of the width of the teeth.. the belt seems to ride closer to the engine so maybe that is why this happened? should i replace the belt with a new one? it only has about 6k on it.. shredded teeth..
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