Thread: 300TDI timing belt wear

Theres a kit to fix it with a pump bracket and new pulleys

some causes that I'm aware of

1. IP not mounted squarely OR is moving its spindle beyond normal limits walking the belt off of the rounded front.

2. the tensioning and idler pullies not mounted correctly

3. not using the last edition of the timing kit

4. Crank gear put onto a damaged/remanufactured crank thats not been done correctly. (I'd imagine this to be exceedingly rare, I havent seen it in a landy yet but have seen it as a "hey check this out" in a small E/W 4 pot petrol)

Does your timing gear, idler, tensioner look like this ? This is the 'updated' timing gear.

I haven't seen the 'old' type, but from the picture in the manual there is no flange on the drive gear but there are flanges on the idler and tensioner.



Deano

PS. I didn't carve the lumps out of the casting (bottom left) or grind the end of the crank, that was the previous timing cover removal person.

Double post, sorry.