alexb1969
16-01-2009, 08:53 PM
Hi - My first post here, came across this forum whilst trying to sort my dads sick 2000w plate tdi passat.
Its a long story - basically last march my dad got home on a friday, turned his car off to open his driveway gate, started it up to park on the drive and it clattered - sounding like a cam follower had collapsed & running rough.
I collected the car on my car trailer and brought it back to my workshop where I removed the cam and replaced the followers, pur it all back together with a new genuine belt and tensioner kit and an oil and filter change ( genuine vag PD oil as it has had for all of its lfe) Started it up and still clattering and running on 3, Spoke to the service manager at my local (actually friendly! ) Vag main agent & they suggested it could be the loom in the head - quoted a resonable price to replace the loom and I booked it an and trailered it over. The service manger looked it over when i dropped it off, commented on its 122000 miles being low for this sort of trouble and said it sounded like a cam follower - I showed him my reciept for a set of genuine vw followers so he agreed the head loom was the next course of action - got a call at lunch that day from him to say the loom was done & the engine ran on 4 but still clattered & they thought the only other problem could be a little end. I collected the car and trailered it to my dads and stuck it in his garage for 6 months whilst i sulked !
Last monday I picked it up and trailered it to work where I got it on the ramp, took the head off, removed the sump and pulled out no 3 rod and piston that you could move up and down the bore!!
Heres the rod
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bfp/passat-rod1.jpg
and heres a close up of the rod end bearing
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bfp/passat-rod2.jpg
So I am now trying to source some more rods - AJM code rods only come from VW in sets of 4 at £368 + vat a set! .For some reason most other Tdi rods are sold singly and have replacable rod end bearings (although this rod is beyond a new bearing!)
Having spoken to a couple of engine shops they both seem to think that tdi rods only have two sorts of castings and are all interchangable - anyone got any 130 or 150 pd rods they would care to compare as I would ideally like to replace the set in this engine with something better
Cheers
Alex
Its a long story - basically last march my dad got home on a friday, turned his car off to open his driveway gate, started it up to park on the drive and it clattered - sounding like a cam follower had collapsed & running rough.
I collected the car on my car trailer and brought it back to my workshop where I removed the cam and replaced the followers, pur it all back together with a new genuine belt and tensioner kit and an oil and filter change ( genuine vag PD oil as it has had for all of its lfe) Started it up and still clattering and running on 3, Spoke to the service manager at my local (actually friendly! ) Vag main agent & they suggested it could be the loom in the head - quoted a resonable price to replace the loom and I booked it an and trailered it over. The service manger looked it over when i dropped it off, commented on its 122000 miles being low for this sort of trouble and said it sounded like a cam follower - I showed him my reciept for a set of genuine vw followers so he agreed the head loom was the next course of action - got a call at lunch that day from him to say the loom was done & the engine ran on 4 but still clattered & they thought the only other problem could be a little end. I collected the car and trailered it to my dads and stuck it in his garage for 6 months whilst i sulked !
Last monday I picked it up and trailered it to work where I got it on the ramp, took the head off, removed the sump and pulled out no 3 rod and piston that you could move up and down the bore!!
Heres the rod
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bfp/passat-rod1.jpg
and heres a close up of the rod end bearing
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~bfp/passat-rod2.jpg
So I am now trying to source some more rods - AJM code rods only come from VW in sets of 4 at £368 + vat a set! .For some reason most other Tdi rods are sold singly and have replacable rod end bearings (although this rod is beyond a new bearing!)
Having spoken to a couple of engine shops they both seem to think that tdi rods only have two sorts of castings and are all interchangable - anyone got any 130 or 150 pd rods they would care to compare as I would ideally like to replace the set in this engine with something better
Cheers
Alex