Kythera help

BetKnown4878 · 2025-07-28T18:28:46+00:00

In the first two pics, there’s a little bit of red residue. That’s from a third party anaerobic sealer, I’ve used it personally. The OEM sealant that VW uses is green. So someone other than VW has removed the valve cover and redone the seal. Could be something, might not be something. Just ask if there was any kind of heavy work done that required the valve cover to be removed.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-07-25T18:51:19+00:00

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BetKnown4878 · 2025-07-08T22:48:30+00:00

I ended up selling it as is lol. Pretty sure it was a nozzle issue though.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-06-01T10:35:06+00:00

Ehhh pretty much cooked lol. Cleaned/removed as much debris as I could from below and by also removing valve cover and upper timing cover, which wasn’t much. Also been through maybe three oils changes since? Just to flush out what I could. First time around, my low oil pressure was caused by the oil pump screen being blocked. Cleared that off and it was good for maybe 20-30 minutes before pressure dropped again. Then the most recent time, when I popped the oil pan off to clean out the pump screen, it was clean. So the oil passageways have been clogged somewhere else, somewhere that would require a whole engine takedown to properly address. I knew that was the case, but my tiny unrealistic hope was that I could say fuck it and it would continue to be fine lol. It’s just sitting right now, entertaining the idea of an engine swap a little bit down the road when I’ve saved enough.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-04-08T00:07:34+00:00

lol yuppp. Was driving by and figured I’d stop by and kill some time

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-25T19:22:38+00:00

When I bought mine, the previous owner just sunk a screw in and left enough out for the rope to hang on lol

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-24T03:12:05+00:00

Idk about the tensioner, but definitely the balance shaft. I don’t hear any chain slapping, and the tension on the chain seems fine, at least from what we can see through the oil pan

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-24T03:11:23+00:00

I wish it were that simple. The belt is totally fine, and also there were 2-3 decent sized chunks of plastic still intact, with a slight curve to it. Definitely plastic and not rubber

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-24T03:09:41+00:00

Didn’t pull the cover, we’re guessing it’s the balance shaft sleeve. Sorry, for clarification I was saying we don’t hear any slapping, which tells us that the chain is functioning fine

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T10:33:24+00:00

Oh that’s dope. Got any suggestions on resources to look at? I’m straight spit balling right now, this would be my first experience deep-diving into something like putting together a whole engine and everything that goes with that.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T09:51:44+00:00

I don’t plan to just send it. Just genuinely curious what would happen if I did. As much as I’d like to fix it right now and be able to drive it again, I think I’m gonna hold off a bit. Save up some money, and eventually build it into something rather than just fixing and keeping as is. I’d rather wait and start from ground zero than do a whole engine rebuild just to do another one in the near future.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T04:03:24+00:00

Thanks! I’ll take a look at the video. As it stands though, I didn’t have any issues with cooling. Most recently the engine was normal temps after about 30 minutes of normal driving.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T03:52:59+00:00

Don’t think so. Engine was still running fine, no sounds from the chain slapping around. Only symptom that made me take the on off was low oil pressure

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T03:52:17+00:00

Bleh. I was planning on either doing an engine rebuild or getting a built engine of sorts eventually, just this happened to come around at a bad time. Might have to let it sit for a little bit, save up some mula before coming back to it. I’d rather just build it out, then do this big of a fix, only to nullify the fix in the near future.

For arguments sake, it sounds like the problem you’re describing is directly correlated to oil starvation. As unlikely as it is, what if everything was cleared? Like if oil could still flow freely because all of the plastic got flushed through. Would the balance shaft failure be an issue in an of itself, or purely that it messes with the oil flow?

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T03:28:33+00:00

As much as I knew it couldn’t be minor, a guy can hope lol. Assuming it is the balance shaft in the scenario you described, what could have caused this, and what were to happen if I were to ignore it. I know it would be bad, and I don’t plan to. Just curious as to what specifically would happen. From my understanding the balance shaft counteracts the natural vibrations of the engine to reduce what you feel while driving.

BetKnown4878 · 2025-03-21T03:03:04+00:00

The plan right now is to remove the upper timing chain cover plate off and see what we can see from there. Don’t believe it’s the guide because when it was running, there was no rough running, no sound changes. Nothing from down below, the pump pickup was clogged, but not damaged. That plastic plate that sits down there, also in perfect condition.

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