VR6 timing...

ok, am just putting my new timing chains and tensiners/runners on.

in absence of the special vw tool for holding the camshafts in place (if anyone knows where i can get one, let me know) are the slots in the end of the camshafts supposed to be parallel with edge of the head, or just flat?

 

Timed cams look like this :-

 

You can get the tool from VW. it is a cheap flat bit of plastic cut in the right shape.

 

hard to tell from that shot...are they exactly parrallel with the edge of the head at the bottom of the pic?

i'll phone vw, but be amazed if they sell the tool for little money.

 

Did you have to take the engine and box out to do this job?

 

the 'box has to come out yes.

 

Fun?

 

Both slots in cams should be dead horizontal.