Former VWDieselParts.com Forum

My local Bosch shop (which has been in business for over 35 years) sells the Flag brand kits. These are sold on ebay by a seller called "angelofishes" or they sure used to be. I believe I have his identifier spelled correctly. I have personally installed these seals for over 10 years and t...

What you have described in the first post is exactly what I had in an engine (many years ago) when I had one of the combustion pre-chambers partially drop out into the cylinder and then get beat back into the head with the piston rotation. Exactly. The head got to temp and then the pre-chamber fell ...

I would be willing to bet you have damaged intermediate shaft bearings. That is probably what stuck the first pump. Could be the 2nd as well. This is generally what causes the problem. I bet your front bearing is gone on the area of load bearing (i.e. the direction the belt shoves the shaft in the b...