85 diesel with broken timming belt

What damage is caused when the timming belt breaks on an 85 diesel golf
1.8lt engine?

Thanks Mario
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wrote:
> What damage is caused when the timming belt breaks on an 85 diesel golf
> 1.8lt engine?
>
> Thanks Mario
> vintage werks resto
>

lots. it's an interference engine. there's a thread on this right now
over in either RAMVW or rec.autos.tech (or maybe both?)

nate

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Your engine would be destroyed because the pistons would collide with the
valves. Happened to me.

> wrote in message
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> What damage is caused when the timming belt breaks on an 85 diesel golf
> 1.8lt engine?
>
> Thanks Mario
> vintage werks resto
>

Pull that head off and see if you have bent valves. If it's just a bent
valve you can replace it with a new one and it'll run fine. If the
piston has valve marks on it you might want to change those as well.

There was a 20VT that slipped timing and all 20 valves had to be
replaced- after new valves it runs fine.

Good luck.

Diesels bend valves and do other damage to the head. Figure a new head at
least.

"Rabbit TDi" > wrote in message
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> Pull that head off and see if you have bent valves. If it's just a bent
> valve you can replace it with a new one and it'll run fine. If the
> piston has valve marks on it you might want to change those as well.
>
> There was a 20VT that slipped timing and all 20 valves had to be
> replaced- after new valves it runs fine.
>
> Good luck.
>