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pudding:
--- Quote from: lazy on September 06, 2024, 08:43:12 am ---I'm thinking that my follower must have been replaced already, because that follower surely didn't cause the wear to the cam. I'll probably do about 6000 miles in a year so I'll check it next year and see how bad it is. I'm really disappointed about the worn cam, I didn't expect any wear at 75,000 miles. I just hope I don't need to replace the cam anytime soon.
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That wear pattern on your follower is because the cam lobe is worn and not rotating the follower. It's basically just beating on it. The round centre wear mark that gradually gets bigger indicates a healthy follower spin, and therefore cam lobe. A worn down cam lobe also reduces HPFP pump lift, which if it gets bad enough will cause fuel rail pressure fault codes.
Rado16v:
--- Quote from: lazy on September 07, 2024, 09:11:08 am ---
--- Quote from: Rado16v on September 07, 2024, 07:00:39 am ---I've been wanting to do mine again, must be around 50k miles on the current one.
Is this the recommended INA cam follower:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285986386821
They have another listed, assume only difference is one is packed in oil:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285966925396
Just came by this, Awesome GTi seem to have stock:
https://www.awesomegti.com/shop-by-car/volkswagen/eos/genuine-vag-2-0tfsi-ea113-fuel-pump-cam-follower/
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Ye that's the correct one and that is one of the companies I bought off but I used their actual site not eBay. They did send me a Febi one though even though it was supposed to be INA.
The genuine one off Awesome GTI seems a good deal. Originally I ordered one off TPS and it was about £49.
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Appreciate that, thanks. May go for the Awesome GTI one in that case.
lazy:
--- Quote from: pudding on September 07, 2024, 10:17:24 am ---
--- Quote from: lazy on September 06, 2024, 08:43:12 am ---I'm thinking that my follower must have been replaced already, because that follower surely didn't cause the wear to the cam. I'll probably do about 6000 miles in a year so I'll check it next year and see how bad it is. I'm really disappointed about the worn cam, I didn't expect any wear at 75,000 miles. I just hope I don't need to replace the cam anytime soon.
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That wear pattern on your follower is because the cam lobe is worn and not rotating the follower. It's basically just beating on it. The round centre wear mark that gradually gets bigger indicates a healthy follower spin, and therefore cam lobe. A worn down cam lobe also reduces HPFP pump lift, which if it gets bad enough will cause fuel rail pressure fault codes.
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I'm going to check it next year, hopefully it won't have caused too much damage by then.bI know it's not a hard job but I don't want to be taking the hpfp off every five minutes. I also need to keep an eye on the oil, I'm not sure if the hpfp has an internal leak. The oil in the hole where the pump goes smelled a bit petroly but the oil on the dipstick smelled normal. Actually as I just typed that I've just thought if that's got a small leak it could be diluting the oil on the cam which would give me my wear problems.
Rado16v:
Finally got round to replacing the cam follower.
I purchased the kit from here in the end:
https://www.coverdalecarparts.co.uk/product-page/cam-follower-kit-2-0-tfsi
Genuine VW one with upgraded stainless steel bolts.
It was first done at around 45k and now done at 96k miles. It wasn't in too bad a condition. Some pics
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