uh oh, arl tappets

[VeeDubGTI16v]

I whipped the rocker cover off today, and guess what? yep, scoring on cyl1 cam lobe  cyl 4 has a bit and 2+3 look ok, its hard to see the tappets but i can make out faint rings on no1.

I'm off to vw in a minute to get a quote on all the bits  Any other suppliers i should be getting quotes from? The car runs fine at the moment but i have time off work at the moment so might as well get it done this week

Bits list i found-

Cam
Tappets
Bearing x10
Fitted bolt x8
Fitted Bolt x10
Tandem Seals x1

anything else? I have cambelt kit + water pump already

Steve, dont laugh! 

[Horney]

Bad times, but lucky you checked now rather than it getting really stuffed later.

nick

[Steve_PD]

 
sorry I had too

I got my cam from this place I also mentioned 'Tabs' of ukmivs sent me and they gave a nice discount. Think I paid £250 delivered. The cam comes from the smae factory as vw cam but not in a vw box.

Or you can get a kit from AW Engineering which supply you with a cam and followers for around £300

every thing you listed is what got changed on mine, guessing the tandem Seals is the cam seal? also want new oil and filter
parts wise your looking around £600 is you buy genuine and a cam from the link above and about £400 if you go with the AW Engineering kit.

it was my no1 and no4 exhaust followers which had pitting/scoring marks on them
this is what no4 looked like



and the cam lobe had worn alot



 

One good thing though is your doing it yourself and saving £400 in labour.
Good luck

[VeeDubGTI16v]

whoa! yours went big time.

had an email back from aw engineering, £250 +vat for the kit. VW want £700ish  errr, no

the car feels and sounds fine at the moment but i think i'll change it all just for peace of mind.

Noticed the throttle body was full of crap as well, does a catch can help much?

[Steve_PD]

vw charge over £400 for the cam alone!!
its £188 for the followers. cam seals £20 etc

yeah mine was pretty far gone
I never fitted one. A catch can will stop oil going through the intercooler. But to stop the build up of crap in the egr you also need to remove it and fit an Allard delete pipe think you also need to get the egr mapped out to stop any fault codes

[JC]

so you can now jinx other peoples cars aswell as your own steve  - Skillz 

[Steve_PD]

its funny that your always around when bad things happen....

[VeeDubGTI16v]

i blame you both 50-50 tbh

steve, are the uprated ones noticeably darker in colour than the old soft ones. Just want to know i'm putting the right ones in!

i can't be arsed with egr deletion, will just clean it now and then instead

[Steve_PD]

yeah the new ones should be black

[VeeDubGTI16v]

wicked, just ordered the kit from awe. Regarding the 2 sets of stretch bolts, i'll get these from vw today as not included in the kit. I guess one set is for the cam caps, whats the other set for?  the pn's on the mk4 forum are out of date