God i love spending money. Cam Chain Tensioner

**danphines** · 01-06-2009 11:13 AM

well i had this loud as hell noise coming from the head of my engine. im pretty sure its the cam chain tensioner. how much do you guys think its gonna run me?

i took it to eurotech and am awaiting the bad news. at least my engine still runs i guess. any of you guys have this problem??

**1.8G** · 01-06-2009 12:03 PM

I recall mine being about ~$450

**Militant-Grunt** · 01-06-2009 12:13 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwS4E9Y-i4

This is what mine sounded like when it was bad, at around 2200rpm.

**ghost6303** · 01-06-2009 02:33 PM

a cam adjuster is like $200 something. its not very hard to replace if your DIY. its just under the valve cover plus a few more bolts. if you have a shop do it they may charge you $400-450 parts+labor.

**djwimbo** · 01-06-2009 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by ghost6303

a cam adjuster is like $200 something. its not very hard to replace if your DIY. its just under the valve cover plus a few more bolts. if you have a shop do it they may charge you $400-450 parts+labor.

If you can get it out without pulling at least one of the cams, you should show me how.

Getting enough slack to put the half moon and tensioner gasket in is a breeze. Replacing the tensioner itself takes a min.

**B5A4Kevin** · 01-06-2009 05:50 PM

air or electric tools definetly help but even with hand tools, its a fairly easy job. you just need the tensioner compressor tool. long needle-nose and/or pick set are nice to have too.

**pac1085** · 01-06-2009 05:54 PM

just be glad you don't have a v6 30v with vvt that takes 2 tensioners at over $500 each

**danphines** · 01-06-2009 05:57 PM

well i took the car to eurotech up here in frederick today and am waiting on the estimate. hope its under 500

**quattro16** · 01-06-2009 06:44 PM

Um the timing belt has to come off along with both cams. Alot of labor, plus cam seals, vlave cover gasket and the tensioner is about 175.00 from ecs. Your looking at about 600 in labor if I had to guess.

**Poopie** · 01-06-2009 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by quattro16

Um the timing belt has to come off along with both cams. Alot of labor, plus cam seals, vlave cover gasket and the tensioner is about 175.00 from ecs. Your looking at about 600 in labor if I had to guess.

false. remove the intake cam and rotate it up to get the adjuster out. it takes like 2 hours to do.

**urban96** · 01-06-2009 10:40 PM

http://ca-va.org/tech/camtensioner/index.html

and

http://www.passatworld.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=215732

**danphines** · 01-07-2009 11:09 AM

got the quote today $836 yay. if it wasnt so cold out i would do it myself but i dont want to fuck up the engine

**FrancoTheTanko** · 01-07-2009 03:04 PM

Same thing happened to me. I paid, parts and labor, about $900. That rattling noise was freaky, I thought it was a bent valve or something. It's nice to hear nothing once you get it back though.

**danphines** · 01-07-2009 04:42 PM

yeah that noise scurred the shit out of me i dont like hearing metal inside my engine. my first thought was o shit what went through my turbo and broke the turbine??? i was happy to find out it was fine.