In a jetta or some car, or in a vanagon ??

not interested in a big flame war of any kind..

I'll just relate your story to anyone who is cryin' the blues over their
blown out cams, heads, turbo's etc.

I also think opertaing in a CAR ..
and since they are CAR engines..
is a lot easier on them than pushing a vanagon.

what oil........weight and brand, do you use ?

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris S" <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: TDI bad camshaft

I put 198k miles on my 2001 TDI with a $75 MAF and a used $400 injection
pump. Everything else is original, to include the alternator and clutch,
outside of timing belt maintenance. I reluctantly sold that car last week,
so that would a big DISAGREE from the Polish camp.

Chris.

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Dnia May 23, 2011 o godz. 15:20 Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> napisał(a):

> A freind of mine paid about $ 150 for an AHU camshaft, in the aftermarket,
> not a dealer.
> Lifters run from 10 dollars to a bit more .........should have new ones to
> go with a new cam usually.
>
> I personally wouldn't put it in a vanagon. They cost too much to operate
> long term, or at least a large portion of the time.
>
> I won't go all nutty here ..
> but really ..
> what I like is an engine that is likely to go without much going wrong
> with
> for at least 150,000 miles..
> even more.
> Engines that are so fundamentally robust ..and so *not stressful on
> themselves in normal operation like diesel are* that you know you are
> going
> to get years of opertion out of it.
>
> Like maybe the occasional water pump, or exhaut repair .....
> or even head gaskets..
> all nicely fixable, doesn't have to be very expensive fairly normal
> issues.
> Waterboxers are like that.
> sure, they have joke headgaskets that need to be done every 80K miles or 8
> years ..but there's no timing belt to break or fail..
> it's a non-inteference engine ....
> low tech actually, underpowered sure, and silly head gasket design ..
> but it's not likely to fail seriously, or at least not for a long, long
> time.
>
> Now if VW diesels were like say mercedes diesel engines ..
> and they'll go for 200K miles and even more .........with barely any
> attention ..
> man would that be nice !
>
> you know........give me an engine that I know is fundamentally robust,
> durable, and not prone to catastopic failures like what happens with any
> timing belt failure on any vw diesel . The belt gets out of place for one
> second, and it's thousands of dollars gone, right there.
> Or ...at about 80,000 miles do a full rebuild ..and 'even then'  there's
> still big risk.
>
> it's that the margin between running ok and total disaster can be bridged
> in
> an instant with vw diesels..
> sometimes, for some people, without any warning even.
>
> but hey ..there's good money in fixin' the dang things.
> and we all get to know eachother better this way, and that's rewarding.
> So thanks VW ..
> if they were really built extra robust and strong, we wouldn't all know
> each
> other like this and be helping each other out.
> what fun.
> scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Dearing" <VWBrain@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 7:33 AM
> Subject: TDI bad camshaft
>
>
>> hey guys have a 05 TDI engine that has eatten up one of the lobes on  the
>> camshaft.   Is this a common problem and what causes just one lobe  to
>> get
>> eatten up. where is the best place to buy a new one. dealer wants $800
>> for
>> it.  I was thinking of installing this in a vannie but am having second
>> thoughts   later  mark d