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Offline Gil7130

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Cam bearing caps - expecting 5 found 4
« on: 23 September 2007, 12:15 »
Anyone know why some heads only have 4 bearing caps, not 5?

Long time since I did any proper wrenching on Golfs and my knowledge is a bit rusty, imagine my surprise when i went to do my tappets/cambelt & tensioners yesterday and found only 4 bearing caps on the cam, i thought some twerp had had a cheap head job done on it but have since found out that some do infact only have 4 caps.

anyone know the reason why? just curious.

Cheers

btw the jobs i did were pretty easy really, once I 'persuaded' the crank pulley off the rest was a piece of cake.

still got a tick under load.... bloody exhaust manifold leak.... grrrrrrrrrrr :evil: :evil:

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Re: Cam bearing caps - expecting 5 found 4
« Reply #1 on: 23 September 2007, 12:30 »
apparently the 8v's dont make enough power to warrant the 5th cap  :laugh:

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Re: Cam bearing caps - expecting 5 found 4
« Reply #2 on: 23 September 2007, 13:10 »
 :laugh: good one