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Offline glowery

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Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« on: June 12, 2016, 01:34:58 pm »
Hi all,

Does anyone know the cost of getting these two parts fitted?

Looks to be about an hours work, thinking about £50 plus about £90 for the parts.

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2016, 04:22:24 pm »
Sounds about right but diverter valve you can do yourself.  Not too hard.
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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2016, 07:57:36 pm »
I'm a real novice when it comes to mechanics but I followed the guide on here to do cam follower and it was really easy..., save yourself a few quid and get your hands dirty:)

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2016, 08:30:05 pm »
Did the can follower myself today and yeah wasnt too hard at all. About to tackle the dv now

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2016, 09:07:15 pm »
I live in an apartment so have no where to do it otherwise I would! Anyone used awesome GTI Before, reckon I could rock up tomorrow and they could fit it?


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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2016, 09:14:03 pm »
well, i just failed getting the DV done. Couldn't get the fecking wheel off! So i tried jacking up one side and having a look but didn't trust sticking my head under the car!

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2016, 04:23:27 pm »
No need to take the wheel off for diverter valve. The top bolt is the only pain in the arse. Should take no longer than 45 mins

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2016, 04:34:32 pm »
No need to take the wheel off for diverter valve. The top bolt is the only pain in the arse. Should take no longer than 45 mins

nice cheers - hopefully give that a go later on.

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2016, 04:50:11 pm »
Never ever ever stick any part of your body under a car just on a jack. Always axle stands!!

Cam follower - easy to do on a BWA or BYD etc but is a pain on an AXX (banjo bolt), although once you do it once or twice it becomes a lot easier

Diverter Valve - I found it much easier to remove the wheel, remove the arch liner and do it that way, although it can be done without removing anything from underneath - although I imagine its more difficult.


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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2016, 06:07:14 pm »
On a K04 I'm led to believe that the DV is at the front of the engine block, no need to jack the car up.

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2016, 06:17:00 pm »
Just done mine!

I had two axle stands and a 25tonne trolly jack as back up. Can't take the front wheel off at the moment so had to get underneath.

My DV (rev C) was fine in the end. But I swapped it anyway for my GFB DV+

Oh and I'm K03 so yeah but harder to get to.

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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2016, 10:15:16 pm »
Don't have any stands or tools at my flat in Leeds so took it to a garage round the corner, charged £40 to fit the DV and PCV on my ed30 which I didn't think was bad'


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Re: Diverter Valve and Cam Follower
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2016, 10:33:04 pm »
Sounds like a right bargain - not worth getting your hands dirty for £40.00....IMO