Removing and installing vane pump, 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder petrol engines — AUDI
Removing and installing vane pump, 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder petrol engines on Audi: 15 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: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T5 (7J), VW Transporter T6 (7E)
- Opens: power steering fluid
📋 Procedure
- Clamp off suction hose at reservoir using hose clamp, up to 25 mm3094.
- Release tension on poly V-belt 27Alternator C; Removing and installing alternator C.
- Clamp off suction hose on vane pump with hose clamps up to 25 mm diameter3094.
- Remove suction hose.
- Unbolt pressure line.
- Catch escaping hydraulic fluid.
- Unbolt power steering pump from bracket and remove pump.
- Install vane pump in bracket and tighten bolts.
- Attach pressure line with new seals and tighten .
- Attach suction hose.
- Remove hose clamps.
- Lay poly V-belt over pulleys and tension belt 27Alternator C; Removing and installing alternator C.
- Fill with hydraulic fluid.
- Bleed steering system and check for leaks .
- Check power steering fluid level or .
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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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