Removing and installing oil pump - from engine number BSM 006 226 onwards — AUDI
Removing and installing oil pump - from engine number BSM 006 226 onwards on Audi: 14 steps, engines BSM.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A8 D3 (4E, 2002–2010)
- Renewed: seals
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- Some oil will come out when oil pipe is removed.
- Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.Renew seals and O-rings.
- After installing engine, fill up with engine oil and check oil level 404.
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Remove spur gear drive .
- Remove coolant pump .
- Remove drive shaft (arrow) for coolant pump from the oil pump.
- Remove sump (bottom section) .
- Position used oil collection and extraction unitV.A.G 1782 below engine.
- Unscrew bolts (arrows) and remove oil pipe. [Note: Some oil will come out when oil pipe is removed.]
- Unscrew bolts (arrows) and remove intake connecting pipe with baffle plate.
- Unscrew bolts (arrows) and remove oil pipe together with housing for oil cooler bypass valve. [Note: Some oil will come out when oil pipe is removed.]
- Remove bolts (arrows) and remove oil pump. [Note: Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.Renew seals and O-rings.]
- Check whether the two dowel sleeves are fitted in the cylinder block; install if necessary.
- Install sump (bottom section) .
- Install coolant pump .
- Install spur gear drive .
- After installing engine, fill up with engine oil and check oil level 404.
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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.
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