Cambelt stripped its teeth :( Is it doomed?

[BeavisJem 0]

Well after having lots of fun doing the sound at the John Peel stage at Glasto :D i was driving back to Norwich and less than 1/4 mile from my house the car died and didn;t restart. I thought i had stalled it so i decided to try starting again.

 

Had a good poke around and had fuel and had spark, couldn't understand why it didn't start until i checked the cambelt. I think the tentioner has failed and its stripped the teeth of the cambelt.

 

So.........

 

Is the G60 an interfering engine?

 

Any other idea's?

 

I am going to get a an new cambelt, tentioner and other bits but just wanted to know if i have damaged anything else.

 

Beavisjem

[davidwort 0]

think you'll get away with it on an 8v, valves are inline with the pistons and VW 8v's aren't normally interference engines.

[domwells27 0]

Autodata have the PG engine used in the golf G60 (assuming they are the same??) as interfering. See here: http://car.sc0rian.com/software/Timing% ... _90-91.pdf

 

 

HTH

 

Dom