Dismantling and assembling auxiliary heater (version “1”, horizontal installation) — AUDI
Dismantling and assembling auxiliary heater (version “1”, horizontal installation) on Audi: factory workshop procedure.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the factory write-up, straight from real workshop data.
📋 Procedure
Dismantling and assembling auxiliary heater (version
“1”
, horizontal installation)
Note
Removing auxiliary heater
Chapter
Detaching and attaching add-on components
Chapter
1
Housing with heat exchanger
Not to be dismantled
Remove combustion residue from combustion chamber prior to assembly (clean)
Affixing auxiliay heater rating plate in line with auxiliary heater design (for
“Petrol”
or
“Diesel”
)
Chapter
2
Burner element with
combustion air blower
V6
Checking
Chapter
Dismantling and assembling
Chapter
Removing and installing
Chapter
Sealing off burner element from housing with horizontally installed auxiliary heater
Chapter
Affixing auxiliay heater rating plate in line with auxiliary heater design (for
“Petrol”
or
“Diesel”
)
Chapter
Do not pull on impeller of combustion air blower to remove
Can only be pulled out of housing following removal of
glow plug for heater
Q9
Chapter
3
Top part of housing with intake air duct
Sealing top part of housing to stop fuel emerging
Chapter
4
Bolt
5
“Auxiliary heater”
wiring harness
With various sensors
Version for horizontal installation
6
Cover for auxiliary heater sensors
Holds
temperature sensor
G18
in position in auxiliary heater
Detaching and attaching
Chapter
7
Hexagon nut
Special collared nut
8
Hexagon nut
Self-locking, replace
For attachment of wiring harness earth connection
9
Glow plug for heater
Q9
With internal heater coils
Checking
Chapter
Removing and installing
Chapter
10
Heater overheating fuse
S24
Checking
Chapter
Removing and installing
Chapter
Part of wiring harness, cannot be replaced separately
11
Temperature sensor
G18
Checking
Chapter
Removing and installing
Chapter
Part of wiring harness, cannot be replaced separately
Positioned directly in coolant and sealed off from housing by way of an O-ring
12
O-ring
Replace
13
Auxiliary heater earth connection
Current flows back via this connection from glow plug to
auxiliary heater control unit
J364
Check for corrosion (contamination) and firm attachment to housing
14
2-pin connector
To
circulation pump
V55
15
2-pin connector
To
combustion air blower
V6
Inserted in burner element
16
Flame monitor
G64
Checking
Chapter
Removing/installing and checking
Chapter
Part of wiring harness, cannot be replaced separately
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