Camshaft oil seal keeps popping out

[coolrado 0]

I noticed there where a few spots of oil on the ground where my car had been parked a couple of weeks ago and i just put it down to a leaky camshaft cover gasket, i replaced the gasket last week and it didnt stop the oil so after a bit of poking around i discovered that the camshaft oil seal had popped out and was happily spinning round on the camshaft sprocket :(

i did manage to push the seal back in but it didnt seem a very tight fit and just popped back out after a couple of days, which also stopped me going to the summer scorcher :mad:

There doesnt appear to be any excess pressure coming from the breather and it seems to be running as normal, i think it has just gone loose as a result of being removed and reinstalled a few times.

I have got a spare seal that came with my headgasket set but i didnt change it at the time, so i need to remove the camshaft sprocket to fit the new seal, i cant seem to find any info about locking the camshaft pulley while undoing the bolt and whether its a strtch bolt or not all i have managed to find is that it should be torqued up to 80nm (58ftlb)any ideas?

[VEEDUBBED 0]

Err,what engine have you got?,8v,16v?

you'll also have to loosen the camshft retaining cap inorder to do a proper job,which also means that you'll have to remove the camshaft top cover.Once you removed the cam cover i find the simplest way of loosening the camshaft retaining bolt is to get a stout metal bar and wrap the bar in a rag,jam the bar into the crankshaft pulley's hole and rest the other half on the top of the cyl. head then loosen the bolt with a decent socket and ratchet.

Be carefull when re-tightening the bolt as sometimes when overtightened the small cast half moon on the cam sprocket can snap,without you noticeing it...,the torque figure you mentioned seems a little high for that bolt(16v bolt is 60lb/f),i don't remember the 8v bolt's figure off hand but i rekon it's less than 80lb/f.

[coolrado 0]

Sorry, like it says in my sig its a G60 :lol:

the torque figure is from the dodgy russian site with all the vw workshop manuals here