As someone thats on the tailend of building his 1.8T head, this video is super awesome. Never thought of putting the tensioner in with both cams at the same time like you did. I always do intake cam, then struggle getting the tensioner and exhaust cam in place, but your method looks way better, and easier to confirm the cam position and the amount of chain links are all correct.
hahaha, have you seen any of this guys other videos? It. Is. The. Cleanest. 2.7. Build. Ever. not enough time in one video to cover everything this dude did.
I just watched the end end of this video. I didn't watch clear through it the first time. But did this time. You and that timing chain tensioner pads got ya lol. That was great hahahahaha. Appreciate the info help on those two specs the other day.
@@PBGarage nice I just put my built motor in last week doing tial 605 turbos just doing all the small stuff now and getting it tuned by Blake next week hopefully
GREAT JOB! Looking forward to seeing your build and meeting you at one of the Sunday morning Starbucks @ trainyards cars and coffee events. :) Unfortunately my A4 is not going to be on the road until Mid August likely.
Really love this honestly I would pay you for rebuilt heads and then just send you mine as like a core but the cam chain tensioner if I remember correctly bank one is supposed to be 16 links between the cams and then 15 on the other one I wish you had done something closer to count the links exactly cuz I remember one of them on I think it's Bank two is in a valley and not at a peak
If only I had the time I'd offer to rebuild yours! For the links, I primarily used the arrows on the cams and took good pictures before. Honestly I was a bit nervous about this whole part but it worked out in the end. Good luck!
Thanks for the content. Rebuilding my first 2.7T and am curious about the notion of re-ringing the pistons on a 100Kmi block if I am doing a valve job. Is there any reason to replace the rings in conjunction to cleaning and lapping the valves? I believe your mate did NOT do his rings with the 2.8 head addition. My cylinders are in great shape and the rotating assembly as well.
If the bores look clean and you had no reason to suspect excessive blow by, I would leave them as is. These motors commonly go to super high mileage on original rings without issue. Iron block and quality rings from the factory, if anything the replacement rings might even be less effective and reliable than what’s already in the engine bedded in and sealed up nice to the bores.
Brilliant! Thanks for the follow up. Agreed, the bores are tip top (surprisingly) this gives me confidence. I'll save working on the rotating assembly for the next car ;-)
Thanks! This was before our subscription to music... We were pretty limited in the early days of PB! But thank you for the feedback, truly appreciate it.
Thank you for the video. I have a question l hope u won't mind answering. I bled out the old oil in my lifters, lubed them as you did and installed. Will they pump up on their own when l start the engine? Thx in advance
You can let them sit in a bucket of oil for some time in an attempt to prime them. But yes, once you start cranking your engine over oil pressure will be fed to them. I turned my engine over (spark plugs out / injectors unplugged) for 30-60s before actually starting the car.
I remember doing that, and I dropped a cam on the floor and dented it... My B5 has been parked since. Do you guys find parts locally? I'm in your area and my parts honey hole dried up.
No, nothing local that I particularly use. I’m sure there are places around but I do enjoy the luxury of shopping online. Plus I can browse / research different quality levels of parts easier. There are a few places near Toronto I use a bunch, and shipping is a day or two.
Please turn off the background music. Why is that necessary? I don't get it. Why go through all the trouble of filming your work to try to help the audi community only to have viewers not be able to hear and pay attention to the instructions.
Yeah you’re right, I went back and watched it again (thinking I had turned the music down during talking), but it’s really annoying! Thanks for the feedback and will definitely improve on this going forward. 👍🏻
Those tensioner guides are total garbage. Fatal design. Bad engineering. One crack in the plastic and they fall out and lunch the engine. Heat and age makes them brittle. The plastic is wrapped around the steel part to retain it. If the steel part was made to hold the plastic in place, they would last for 500K. They don't wear out, they break around 240K km.. Don't drive on old ones.
I mean 240K km isn't bad for a timing component. They are cheap and somewhat easy to replace with the motor in the car too. Just a maintenance item to stay on top of.
@@PBGarage True, but I never saw chain guides listed as a regular maintenance item. The failure is catastrophic. I am sure glad I found out about this before failure. I had no idea. I won't even drive the affected cars I have until they are serviced. Too risky.
Another A1 video! Your work is top notch. Always giving me good ideas as my build is at a similar point of progress. Keep it up, can’t wait for more videos from the gang! RIP to the dude that bought the cayenne 🪦
Yeah that Cayenne just swallowed a 16mm socket! But once his energy turns back to the 2.7T build it'll progress very quickly. Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for the feedback!
You’re a legend. Thanks for the tips on the CCT shoes!
As someone thats on the tailend of building his 1.8T head, this video is super awesome. Never thought of putting the tensioner in with both cams at the same time like you did. I always do intake cam, then struggle getting the tensioner and exhaust cam in place, but your method looks way better, and easier to confirm the cam position and the amount of chain links are all correct.
Thanks! Glad the video helped!
I have to do this for the spare engine I have for my S. Great detail to cleaning. Thank you.
Thanks! I find it very therapeutic cleaning things like this.
all that beautiful top end job and no bottom end overhaul!!!
hahaha, have you seen any of this guys other videos? It. Is. The. Cleanest. 2.7. Build. Ever. not enough time in one video to cover everything this dude did.
Oh the bottom end got overhauled 🤣
I just watched the end end of this video. I didn't watch clear through it the first time. But did this time. You and that timing chain tensioner pads got ya lol. That was great hahahahaha. Appreciate the info help on those two specs the other day.
Lol yep the joys of trying to film yourself.
Man, you are definitely one of the best. Thank you for sharing your video!
Thanks for watching!
Nice job can’t wait to see it run
Thanks! I’m installing the engine this weekend and hopefully firing it up not too long after that.
@@PBGarage nice I just put my built motor in last week doing tial 605 turbos just doing all the small stuff now and getting it tuned by Blake next week hopefully
@@nashnelson2290 Awesome! Those turbos will rip!
GREAT JOB! Looking forward to seeing your build and meeting you at one of the Sunday morning Starbucks @ trainyards cars and coffee events. :) Unfortunately my A4 is not going to be on the road until Mid August likely.
I'll definitely be hitting up some cars and coffee events this summer. Hoping to start it up within a couple weeks.
Really good vid
Thanks for the feedback!
Really love this honestly I would pay you for rebuilt heads and then just send you mine as like a core but the cam chain tensioner if I remember correctly bank one is supposed to be 16 links between the cams and then 15 on the other one I wish you had done something closer to count the links exactly cuz I remember one of them on I think it's Bank two is in a valley and not at a peak
If only I had the time I'd offer to rebuild yours! For the links, I primarily used the arrows on the cams and took good pictures before. Honestly I was a bit nervous about this whole part but it worked out in the end. Good luck!
Thanks for the content. Rebuilding my first 2.7T and am curious about the notion of re-ringing the pistons on a 100Kmi block if I am doing a valve job. Is there any reason to replace the rings in conjunction to cleaning and lapping the valves? I believe your mate did NOT do his rings with the 2.8 head addition. My cylinders are in great shape and the rotating assembly as well.
If the bores look clean and you had no reason to suspect excessive blow by, I would leave them as is. These motors commonly go to super high mileage on original rings without issue. Iron block and quality rings from the factory, if anything the replacement rings might even be less effective and reliable than what’s already in the engine bedded in and sealed up nice to the bores.
Brilliant! Thanks for the follow up. Agreed, the bores are tip top (surprisingly) this gives me confidence. I'll save working on the rotating assembly for the next car ;-)
HAHAHAHA!!!! That ending!!🤣😂 I was dying...
Lol
Great video man, music was a bit annoying
Thanks! This was before our subscription to music... We were pretty limited in the early days of PB! But thank you for the feedback, truly appreciate it.
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback (music). I’ll keep that in mind for the next videos 👍🏻👌🏻
Thank you for the video. I have a question l hope u won't mind answering. I bled out the old oil in my lifters, lubed them as you did and installed. Will they pump up on their own when l start the engine?
Thx in advance
You can let them sit in a bucket of oil for some time in an attempt to prime them. But yes, once you start cranking your engine over oil pressure will be fed to them. I turned my engine over (spark plugs out / injectors unplugged) for 30-60s before actually starting the car.
I am going to be pulling heads off my 2.7T soon. How about I ship them to you to rebuild for me. 😂😂
😂
I enjoyed doing the work but not enough to do it again so soon lol
I remember doing that, and I dropped a cam on the floor and dented it... My B5 has been parked since. Do you guys find parts locally? I'm in your area and my parts honey hole dried up.
No, nothing local that I particularly use. I’m sure there are places around but I do enjoy the luxury of shopping online. Plus I can browse / research different quality levels of parts easier. There are a few places near Toronto I use a bunch, and shipping is a day or two.
At the 3:51 mark you reference Sean' video. Do you have a link to which one?
th-cam.com/video/yUY-z5iXWl8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xw6RKO4DFlU62A23
Around the 19 minute mark when he puts the cams in.
Thanks. I’m trying decide if I want to tackle the cam tensioners. This video helps, just want to make sure everything lines up when putting back in.
which Audi did you pull those spindles off from?
The front spindles are from a B6 A4/S4, and the rears are B5s. I painted the front and rears with POR-15 silver.
Can you put like link for steamer ??
I don’t have a link but it is a NEAT branded steam cleaner.
Please turn off the background music. Why is that necessary? I don't get it. Why go through all the trouble of filming your work to try to help the audi community only to have viewers not be able to hear and pay attention to the instructions.
Yeah you’re right, I went back and watched it again (thinking I had turned the music down during talking), but it’s really annoying! Thanks for the feedback and will definitely improve on this going forward. 👍🏻
Any1 if you can put a 2001 allroad 2.7 tt wags motor/box transplant a6 c5 car 2.7 tt redline 2005
Yes you definitely can.
why are you trying to talk over the music- drop the "music"
Sounds good we’ll try harder to drop the bass.
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Those tensioner guides are total garbage. Fatal design. Bad engineering. One crack in the plastic and they fall out and lunch the engine. Heat and age makes them brittle.
The plastic is wrapped around the steel part to retain it. If the steel part was made to hold the plastic in place, they would last for 500K. They don't wear out, they break around 240K km.. Don't drive on old ones.
I mean 240K km isn't bad for a timing component. They are cheap and somewhat easy to replace with the motor in the car too. Just a maintenance item to stay on top of.
@@PBGarage True, but I never saw chain guides listed as a regular maintenance item. The failure is catastrophic. I am sure glad I found out about this before failure. I had no idea. I won't even drive the affected cars I have until they are serviced. Too risky.
Another A1 video! Your work is top notch. Always giving me good ideas as my build is at a similar point of progress. Keep it up, can’t wait for more videos from the gang! RIP to the dude that bought the cayenne 🪦
Yeah that Cayenne just swallowed a 16mm socket! But once his energy turns back to the 2.7T build it'll progress very quickly.
Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for the feedback!