mfyock

I was looking on Blaufergnugen's website and I saw that they have a variety of tools listed to do a 4000 quattro timing belt. I have done timing belts before, but never on an Audi. Are there special tools that are required just to do Audi timing belts?

Tylerb929

There are special tools made to change your timing belt which probably make it easier, but you can do it with basic tools.

Dwight V.

I'm the kinda guy who strive to live without 'special tools' but doing this job without them is...well...impossible as far as I could tell. If you've found a way to do it, please share!

dB

You almost have to have that special brace-thing that locks the camshaft to one of the motor mount brackets. Then you need that long wrench in order to get the SUPER-TORQUED bolt of the main crank.

TCP

Did mine about 6 months ago with no special tools and it worked fine. the only difficult part is getting the large 27mm nut off the front of the crankshaft pulley. if you have a standard transmission this is quite easy as you can put a bolt through the flywheel to hold it still while you jump up and down on a breaker bar to get the bolt to unscrew (due to high torque values and locktite). anyway i have an automatic and the torque converter covers the holes so that didn't work for me. i got a helper to stick a large screwdriver into the flywheel through the timing hole and lean against it while i did the jumping. anyway it loosened just fine and just add new locktite and tighten it up again on installation. the whole procedure took me about 8 hours of SLOW methodical progress. i used a haynes manual to get the main idea and then just went from there. the haynes doesn't tell much but i would recommend having a new water pump and idler pulley ready to go so you don't have to do it again for a while. also, a couple of bolts for the rear timing belt cover go into the oil passages in the engine so put them back in after the cover has been removed while you're sorking but you'll see the trickle of oil to tell you which ones. here's a link on how to do it on a manual transmission with a transmission housing bolt.<ul><li><a href="http://www.isham-research.com/quattro/crank_locking.html">crank locking</a></li></ul>

TCP

I used a 1/16" impact socket instead of the 27mm and it works great. the easiest way to do this is put the socket over the bolt, attach an extension and support it with a jack stand on the end sticking out and then attach the breaker bar to that. it allows you to work in front of the bumper while doing the torquing.

4kq

Or, you could do it in 2hours with a blau tool RENTAL.

Dwight V.

Since timing belts on these last 90,000 miles, it's probably not worth buying the tool. For the cost of the tool I could have it done at the dealer.
When I removed the bolt with the engine out of the car, I used a piece of angle aluminum to lock the flywheel. I still had to whack the breaker bar with a sledgehammer (yes, really) to get it loose, so I'm not confident this would work for everyone.
And I'll be damned if I'd spend 8 hours doing that job...

dB

It's tight in there with the aux rad, and I didn't have the stomach to do it at the time.