Removing and installing coolant pipe (front) on engine — AUDI
Removing and installing coolant pipe (front) on engine on Audi: 12 steps, engines CJGA, CJGC, CJMA, CLZB.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi Q7 (4L, 2005–2015)
- Opens: coolant
- Renewed: o-ring
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- Disregard (items 2, 3).
- Fit new O-ring.Secure all hose connections with the correct type of hose clips (same as original equipment) Electronic parts catalogue.
📋 Procedure
- Carefully pull engine cover panel off four retaining pins one after the other (arrows).
- Drain coolant .
- Remove air filter element 23.
- Loosen hose clip (1).
- Remove bolts (arrows), pull air pipe off turbocharger and press downwards. [Note: Disregard (items 2, 3).]
- Release hose clip (1) and detach coolant hose.
- Remove bolts (arrows) and detach coolant pipe (front) from oil filter housing. [Note: Fit new O-ring.Secure all hose connections with the correct type of hose clips (same as original equipment) Electronic parts catalogue.]
- Clean and smoothen sealing surface for O-ring.
- Lubricate O-ring with coolant and slide onto coolant pipe.
- Install air pipe Exploded view - air pipes, air hoses.
- Install air filter element 23.
- Fill up with coolant .
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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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