Timing Gears on a TDI engine.

Has anyone fitted timing gears to a tdi in lieu of a timing belt?
and if so was their any problems encountered whilst carrying out this conversion?

fitted one years ago for a customer,pretty simple,damned expensive at the time for the kit

there's been a couple of threads on that conversion - try searching for Zeus Gears.
From memory, the conclusion was that they're expensive crap.

Expensive, likely to fail with catastrophic results and no response from manufacturer with any probs

forget them, they fail sooner and are much more noisy than the orginal drive belt

Rovin' the Globe

Many thanks for all your replies/comments.
The timing belt is staying.

groenendael said:

Many thanks for all your replies/comments.
The timing belt is staying.

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Good decision.
Those gears sets are catastrophic.
The design is bad, the gear-to-gear principles are bad, the materials are bad, the execution is bad, and the after-sales stinks.

Belts are OK and cheap and cheerful to renew once in a while.

CharlesY

As a matter of interest, if you want an idea of what reliable timing gears should look like, hunt for drawings of the Austin diesel taxi engines.

Now those were GEARS! Those engines routinely covered 500,000 miles between overhauls.

CharlesY

CharlesY said:

As a matter of interest, if you want an idea of what reliable timing gears should look like, hunt for drawings of the Austin diesel taxi engines.

Now those were GEARS! Those engines routinely covered 500,000 miles between overhauls.

CharlesY

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Many thanks for the information.