Removing and installing chain/chain tensioner for oil pump - "“engine generation III”" — AUDI
Removing and installing chain/chain tensioner for oil pump - "“engine generation III”" on Audi: 10 steps, engines ACK, AGA, AHA, AJG.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A4 B5 (8D)
📋 Procedure
- Remove sump (bottom section) .
- Remove sealing flange (front) .
- Place used oil collection and extraction unitV.A.G 1782 under engine.
- Unbolt brackets (arrows) and pull off long oil supply pipe from below.
- Unscrew chain sprocket using TORX wrench T45 (arrow) and pull it off oil pump.
- Take chain sprocket out of chain.
- Pull off chain tensioner.
- Lift off chain.
- Install sump (bottom section) Installing sump (bottom section) - engines with moulded gasket or Installing sump (bottom section) - engines with liquid gasket.
- Install sealing flange (front) .
Other AUDI procedures
- Checking hydraulic bucket tappets – Audi A6 C5
- Removing and installing left exhaust manifold – Audi A8 D2
- Removing and installing right front exhaust pipe with catalytic converter
- Checking chain tensioner for oil pump and removing and installing oil pump
- Testing fuel pump relay -J17 and activation
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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