Measuring return rate of injection units at starter speed — VW
Measuring return rate of injection units at starter speed on VW: 12 steps, engines CKDA. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Touareg II (7P, 2010–2018)
- Special tools named: V.A.G 1348/2
- Renewed: this injector
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- Clean and dry all return line connections (e.g. with standard commercially available cold cleaning solvent) before removing them.
- Activate starter 3 times, pausing for around 20 seconds after each starting attempt to ensure that starter does not overheat.
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Pull off engine cover .
- Clean and dry all return line connections (e.g. with standard commercially available cold cleaning solvent) before removing them.
- ⚠ Danger of functional impairment due to contamination/soilingObserve rules for cleanliness . — Pull return line connections off the injectors by pressing the two tabs downwards and simultaneously pulling the centre piece upwards in order to release them (arrow).
- In order to prevent fuel being injected during the attempt to start the engine, detach electrical connector from fuel pressure regulating valve N276(arrow) in high-pressure accumulator on right.
- Fit hose lines onto return line connections of all 8 injectors.
- Guide the 8 hose lines into the two V.A.G 1348/2 B on left and right.
- Activate starter 3 times, pausing for around 20 seconds after each starting attempt to ensure that starter does not overheat.
- If fuel comes out of an injector, replace this injector .
- Connect electrical connector to fuel pressure regulating valve N276.
- Installing fuel return lines
- Because electrical connectors have been detached, faults have been stored in the engine control units: "“Read out event memory”" and delete.
- Bleed fuel system and check for leaks .
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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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