timing belt cover @#$%!?

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

These pictures may help:
http://scirocco.dyn.dhs.org/vw/list/Don_Walter/Pulley_Cover/
The hex nut part is 13mm
 If you can slide a wrench in there you can stop it from spinning.

 On 11/17/05, wolfsbrg8v@bellsouth.net <wolfsbrg8v@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
> While removing the upper timing belt cover, per usual, this time the weird
> flanged nut in the center of the cover would not release -- apparently its
> stud has come loose so that when I turn the nut it is actually unscrewing
> the stud from the block. Which wouldn't be so bad except it won't allow
> enough clearance to get the damn cover off. Has this ever happened to
> anybody? Is there a workaround, other than hacksaw violence?
>
> Leo
> 84.5 wolfsburg
>
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Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1984 8V Audi 4000s (lastest addition)
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1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
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