Audi A4 1996 Cam Belt settings

You can purchase manuals for Audi's from Bently Publications. They come on a CD and are loaded onto your PC. However, if the timing belt has broken, there is a good chance that the valves have hit the pistons in one or more cylinders as Audi's have interference engines. This will probably have done serious damage to the engine.

yes a new belt should have a new tension other wise they cant guarantee the belt will last another 90k miles because in the old tensioner loosing tension and possibly damaging the new belt

You did it the right way. If you tried to make a full cam revolution you would have hit the pistons with the valves. Put the lower timing cover and crank pulley back on. If the cam marks are aligned right and the mark on the lower timing cover lines up with the mark on the crank pulley, you're good to go.

there usually is an arrow looking mark (or V shaped mark) above it on the housing.

The 2000 Audi TT 1.8 liters engine timing belt set up:


The 2000 Audi TT 1.8 liters engine rear chain & tensioner set up:

The valve timing must be out. You will need to verify that the timing marks on your camshaft sprocket(s) are set at the correct position when you rotate the engine to the compression stroke on TDC.

Audi revised the specified cam belt change interval from 120k to 80k, after a class action lawsuit was brought against them.
However, they have been known to break at around 65-70k. I always replace them earlier as a precaution..

Timing belt needs to be replaced every 100000 km at the most . Do you know when it was replaced last ?
Did they remove the front pulley (The one on the crankshaft)?
The Timing belt and AUX belts are not related to the sump but they are related to the crankshaft pulley , Depending on the type of repair carried out they may have removed the pulley in order to replace the crankshaft front oil seal.If I was replacing a crankshaft oilseal due to oil leaking I would have fitted a new Timing belt as well as Tensioner , Idler/s , Water pump (if driven by timing belt) as well as the AUX belts as Oil can damage rubber .
Hope this makes sense to you ?
Looking forward to your reply
Regards
George

I need to find a diagram to show the placement a serpentine belt, for an 1999 adui a4 2.8. I also nee to know if ther are any trics on how to get it on.

thanks

The 1.8T is very common in the US. We don't have any diesels here in the A4, but the 1.8T is all over the place.

What exactly do you need to know? You were posting it in the title to your question but it got cut off and I don't know exactly what you're looking for in terms of info for changing the cam chain. If you mean the timing belt, that's a belt, not a chain. I thought that the 1.8T drove both cams off of the belt, unlike the 2.8, where only the exhaust cams are belt-driven by the timing belt, and the intake cams drive off their respective exhaust cams via a chain and tensioner assembly. If you can clarify this, we can proceed.