MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: bradh on December 15, 2016, 05:17:54 pm

Title: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: bradh on December 15, 2016, 05:17:54 pm: Good evening gents picked up my gti tuesday night and have discovered a little annoying tic / tap from the back of the engine once warm from cold engine is silent

So took car into my local garage and had them have a look today i asked them to drop sump and clean oil pick up and thats when it alk went pete tonge so to speak bakance shaft had snapped bolt so a quick job turned into few hours end resault no more gear on balance shaft thought this might be my issuse turns out its not .

Garage has an option on whats possibly gone wrong as he says i have new cover for cam shaft chain and what looks like new fuel pump too so he thinks top end chain/ tensioner has failed leading to bottom to go what do you think seem logical to you ??

Any ways this annoying rattle is still pressent so thinking ill get another cam chain tensioner abd swap it out what you guys think??

Sorry for long drerey post but been quite a stressfull day or 2 of ownership so far :(

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Title: Re: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: bradh on December 15, 2016, 05:32:20 pm: Said snapped bolt and cut off gear

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Title: Re: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: bradh on December 19, 2016, 07:58:04 pm: all fixed new chain and tensioner today now nice and silent (well as silent as the tfsi engine gets)
Title: Re: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: Jimbozzr6@gmail.com on December 19, 2016, 08:20:34 pm: glad ts all up and running again bud
Title: Re: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: Dan_FR on December 20, 2016, 07:41:53 am: errrrm...... so they've just cut the balance shaft gear off? and left it?
Title: Re: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: bradh on December 22, 2016, 08:26:41 pm: Quote from: Dan_FR on December 20, 2016, 07:41:53 am
errrrm...... so they've just cut the balance shaft gear off? and left it?

they mentioned that they put a bolt (thread-loced) back in
Title: Re: A little tick / tap when warm
Post by: Jimbozzr6@gmail.com on December 24, 2016, 09:28:43 pm: ive recently discovered I had a similar problem to this. I bought a replacement engine before discovering that the balance shaft had seized, snapped the sprocket and wrapped the chain round the crank sprocket. so I deleted the balance shaft and now have a spare engine :)