Front end removal for timing belt. If you look closely at
05-29-2003, 06:47 AM
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I would agree, here's a little better picture
<center><img src="http://www.audipages.com/Tech_Articles/enginemechanical/frontendremoved.JPG"></center><p>I lightened it up a bit. I believe I have the A/C hoses and P/S pump hoses labeled correctly.
So what do you think? I'm doing EscapA8's tomorrow, should I do it this way? It would make life sooooo easy!
The Bently has a procedure to pull the bumper assembly and then another to pull the radiator assembly, you can see it is in all one piece with the headlights. I doubt that this would take more than an hour to take off. It took us that long the first time we did it to figure out how to remove the electric fan alone!
I'm going to jack up the front end of the car too and put it on jackstands, makes it a lot easier, does it appear that this car is on jack stands?
I looked at the A/C hoses the other day, I think the aluminum bottle is the receiver, the hoses attached to it are flexible, but not a whole lot of room to drop the bumper down. If the car was jacked up, then I don't think it would be a problem.
What should we do?
pw
So what do you think? I'm doing EscapA8's tomorrow, should I do it this way? It would make life sooooo easy!
The Bently has a procedure to pull the bumper assembly and then another to pull the radiator assembly, you can see it is in all one piece with the headlights. I doubt that this would take more than an hour to take off. It took us that long the first time we did it to figure out how to remove the electric fan alone!
I'm going to jack up the front end of the car too and put it on jackstands, makes it a lot easier, does it appear that this car is on jack stands?
I looked at the A/C hoses the other day, I think the aluminum bottle is the receiver, the hoses attached to it are flexible, but not a whole lot of room to drop the bumper down. If the car was jacked up, then I don't think it would be a problem.
What should we do?
pw
05-29-2003, 07:03 AM
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That's basically what we do on S4s, though it looks like your AC lines run through the carrier
On the S4 the AC unit swings out of the way then the front carrier comes off. It takes less than 30 minutes to get to the point in your picture.
I'd at least try it this way once
I'd at least try it this way once
05-29-2003, 01:42 PM
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alloy bottle should be a drier...
the alloy bottle is the drier - it is located after the condenser on the older cars. later a8's don't have a drier, they have a collector on the upstream side of the compressor (i.e. after the evaporator).
don't disconnect the a/c lines as that will make the job quite a lot bigger (new seals are mandatory, plus you will need a full purge, and dry of the system (needs a specialist in other words).
hth
dave
'01 s8
don't disconnect the a/c lines as that will make the job quite a lot bigger (new seals are mandatory, plus you will need a full purge, and dry of the system (needs a specialist in other words).
hth
dave
'01 s8
