My car has been running very rough, a smart guy on this site suggested I check the timing belt. it was off by about 5 teeth on the cam.

friend and I did the repair over the weekend. started right up, still runs a little rough.

still very fast, no check engine, does it rest or an in motion.

2001 225hp 6 speed. 130k miles.

I may put it on ebay and get one with fewer miles.

do you think I wrecked the head or valves? is there a simple check? no dealer in town and the VW place won't let me in.

any thoughts?

also, before we found the timing belt off, I checked plugs, coils, cleaned MAF, did a vodoo dance.

thanks!

Peter S

 

If your TB was off, you could have bent some valves and have low compression in a cylinder if not all of them. Do a compression test and see what you get.

 

I would suggest recording it and posting the way the idle runs.

One way to check would be a comppression test heres a link.

If the you were off by about five teeth then I would think the valves hit.

I was off by about the same and my valves hit, I had to rebuild the head. This would be a good chance to upgrade internals if your engines open.

Dont get frustrated think of the cup as half full

 

you got your timing chain mis alligned
you need to pull the valve cover and realign everything happened to me

 

you probably mildly bent the valves, or a few of them at least.

 

^^ that is if you havnt done it yet if you have yea you most likly bent valaves as ray stated....

 

Im going to go with alteast 4 intakes

 

ya i think the exhaust valves are the first to go....idk it depends....see all my exhaust valves bent and only one intake valve bent...weird lol

 

I'll check compression and report back. I'm fearing the worst. pulling the head looks like a tough job but I haven't read the book on it yet.

thanks again for the advice.

Peter S

 

You can remove it easy but you need a special fitting to put it back on.