well guys i started maintenence after i found out that my alternator died, i decided to pull the front off to change the alternator. I got a new bosch one, not some cheap autozone, pepboys brand. well by now i have 83,000 miles on my audi so i decided to change the timing belt. I bought the ecs tuning kit for $344.0 it came with everything. The only thing i didnt use from the kit were the Cam seals ( I was too scared to even touch the cams). I am currently a freshmen in college, 18 years old and worked on my car for 4 days whenever i was out of school or not at work, and today was judgement day. I was so scared when i hooked everything up i didn't wanna start it after hearing some of the bad timing belt stories but i finally got the guts to do it and everything sounded smooth. No metal noise no nothing perfect audi tone. Yes timing belt installation DONE!





(and no i did not work on my car in these clothes, i was just showing my friend the car that day)

(once you get a box like this you know the parts are good)

(old tensioners vs. new )


(Bosch Alternator installed)




(only way to get a corroded temperature sensor out)



put my wheels back on after this and drove out of the garage... what a good day

 

Just curious, whats with all the 18 yr old/ college kids on this site. When i joined up i thought i would be the only one
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haha i dunno my audi s4 was my first car, my parents helped me alot but i worked for the rest. I got it like 3 years ago.

 

good job man looks like you did it just right. One question do you know where that Oil leak is coming from above that compressor???
might want to fix that too

 

did a nice job, my only question is where did you get that bar from for the cams?? Did you make that or is that made from a company??

 

yeah i fixed the leak, it was slowly ozzing out of the side of the block. Underneath the tensioner, i tighted up the screws they were a little loose. I bought the tool from zdmak ( they didn't respond with there phone number), but i order it on ebay with their zdmak account. The cam lock bar came with the crankshaft lock tool. I am going to put it on ebay soon, since i do not need to change the belt for another 100,000K hahaha

 

Congrats! It's not a tough job, just a long one! Yea, turning the key the first time is a little scary!

 

Yeah, I guess there is a lot of us 18yo out there now with a good taste in cars.

 

19 going on 20 for me! I don't know about you guys, but I've only seen one B5 or B6 S4 around my parts of the state. And I drive 70 miles per day. But good job on the timing belt. Sometime this Winter break my dad and I have to change our Timing Belts. I'm kind of excited since I love working on cars.

 

drobrt where do you live becuase i live in the nroth suburbs of chicago and i see a couple nagaro blues, like one yellow, one red, and one other black