[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Thar she blows!
Gross Scruggs wrote: > > After a spirited run last Friday afternoon I had the hood up in the driveway > just looking over things and trying to track down a persistent small coolant > leak, when I reached in and tapped the input line to the after-run turbo cooling > pump. The fitting broke off right at the pump housing and sprayed a fan-shaped > pattern of quite hot and stickey coolant over me and the engine. Typical. Had it last year, replaced the whole pump for $145. No spare parts are available for this pump. > Is this pump really necessary? Anyone want to admit having ditched this thing? Don't do it Gross. I'd rather toss my high power Alpine HiFi, than get rid of this pump. > Yet another example of Audi vision and cost cutting, "...let's make it from > plastic!" taking different roads. Dumb, ain't it? Just like our plastic radiators and heater cores. I took my broken aux pump apart out of curiousity. It works on the same principle as a non-contact magnetic stirrer in my lab. -- Igor Kessel '89 200TQ - 18psi (TAP) '98 A4TQ - on order Philadelphia, PA USA
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