Author Topic: What cam shaft to fit mk2 gti 8v  (Read 9277 times)

Offline bigdw

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Re: What cam shaft to fit mk2 gti 8v
« Reply #50 on: 24 March 2009, 23:54 »
top work, but there is something ive always wanted to know. how do you know which angle of rotation to put the cam in?

Offline Ben Lessani

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Re: What cam shaft to fit mk2 gti 8v
« Reply #51 on: 25 March 2009, 09:10 »
The cam gear will only go onto the cam in one place via the woodruff key.

If you marked up the cam gear beforehand, then it just drops back into the same place.

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Re: What cam shaft to fit mk2 gti 8v
« Reply #52 on: 25 March 2009, 09:21 »
The cam gear will only go onto the cam in one place via the woodruff key.

If you marked up the cam gear beforehand, then it just drops back into the same place.

There spake the voice of several weeks of camshaft-in-camshaft-out-camshaft-in-camshaft-out-camshaft-in-camshaft-out-camshaft-in-camshaft-out.  :grin:
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Offline jayz1981

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Re: What cam shaft to fit mk2 gti 8v
« Reply #53 on: 27 March 2009, 16:36 »
what thay said