Removing and installing small coolant pipe (left-side) — AUDI
Removing and installing small coolant pipe (left-side) on Audi: 14 steps, engines BHK, BHL. 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 Q7 (4L, 2005–2015)
- Opens: coolant
- Renewed: o-ring
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- Disregard (arrows).
- Disregard items marked (1, 3 and arrows).
📋 Procedure
- Drain coolant .
- Detach coolant hose (1) from connection. [Note: Disregard (arrows).]
- Disconnect coolant hose (2) from connection and move coolant hoses on intake manifold clear.
- Move coolant hoses to front. [Note: Disregard items marked (1, 3 and arrows).]
- Move electrical connector (1) for engine speed sender G28 on dipstick guide tube clear.
- Move B+ wire (arrow) on dipstick guide tube clear.
- Remove bolt (2) and pull out dipstick guide tube.
- Disconnect vacuum hose (1).
- Unplug electrical connector (arrow) on intake manifold flap vale N316, unclip intake manifold flap valve N316 from bracket and move clear to one side.
- Move electrical wiring on small coolant pipe (left-side) clear.
- Slacken bolts (1) and remove bolt (2).
- Detach small coolant pipe (left-side) from intake manifold and detach from coolant hoses (arrows). [Note: Fit new O-ring.]
- Install dipstick guide tube .
- Fill up with coolant .
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