{"id":313,"date":"2011-10-09T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T05:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=313"},"modified":"2018-06-10T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T08:19:20","slug":"a8-d2-water-pump-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/a8-d2-water-pump-replacement.html","title":{"rendered":"A8 D2 Water Pump Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The coolant leaks caused us to believe it was from the water pump, our bad, and we replaced it.<\/em><\/p>\n

****The bumper should come out for the radiator to move out to have room to access the front of the engine. It took me less than 1 hour to remove the bumper and the radiator support. Follow the procedure from Audipages.com<\/a>, it’s very clear. Also read the timing belt<\/a> procedure. Read carefully because it took me half of a day to remove the passenger side timing belt cover because of a hidden bolt and stripped a water pump bolt due to over tightened the bolt (the procedure was 89lb-in ~7-8lb-ft which my torque wrench was in, I try to torque it to 20lb-ft and after 17ft-lb ~ 204lb-in, the bolt was gone and leave me with headless bolt stuck in the block) and this set me back another 4 hours. Below is the video for the whole replacement which including the removal of the oil cooler to replace the $23 part plastic coolant pipe (which was the cause of the coolant leak).<\/p>\n

We can remove the right timing belt cover and the electrical fan to run engine to see if the waterpump is leaking.<\/em><\/p>\n