Removing and installing hydraulic fan: Audi A8 D2 3.3 TDI (AKF)
Step-by-step removing and installing hydraulic fan for the Audi A8 D2 3.3 TDI (AKF): 12 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A8 D2 (4D)
- Opens: power steering fluid
- Special tools named: V.A.G 1306
- Renewed: sealing rings
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- Replace sealing rings.Re-attach all cable ties in the same locations on installation.
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Pull lock carrier forwards (see the separate procedure).
- Place drip tray for workshop cranes VAS 6208 or V.A.G 1306 beneath engine.
- Use hose clamps 3094 to pinch off hydraulic pipes to hydraulic fan.
- Detach hydraulic pipes at hydraulic fan (arrows).
- Unclip wiring harness from fan ring (arrows).
- Screw out bolts (1 … 4).
- Take out hydraulic fan. [Note: Replace sealing rings. Re-attach all cable ties in the same locations on installation.]
- Install lock carrier with attachments General body repairs, exterior50.
- Install headlights Electrical system94.
- Install front bumper General body repairs, exterior63.
- Check headlight adjustment Electrical system94.
- Replenish power steering fluid and bleed steering system Running gear, front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive48.
Other AUDI procedures
- Measuring crankshaft radial clearance – Audi A8 D2 · 2 torque figures
- Separating centre and rear silencer · 2 torque figures
- Removing and installing bottom part of sump – Audi 3.3 TDI AKF · 1 torque figures
- Removing and installing front coolant pipe
- Removing and installing right front exhaust pipe with oxidation catalytic converter
- 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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