Been busy this weekend. I discovered the Audi was leaking last weekend, when we got to our mini-moon hotel. And been noticing oil patches coming from under the car all week. So decided this weekend I needed to find where that was coming from. I’ve always had a few small leaks since we did the oil pump. I think we went to lean on the Dirko for the sump, based on people saying you can put too much on and it spews into the inside of the sump into the oil. not good.
Anyway, once underneath, I spotted some green oil on the inner CV Boot. I’ve had a good look at the steering rack, and there is nothing coming out of the rack at all, so that’s all good. I have spotted some green fluid though, on the pipe supplying the rack. I did have some arguments with this pipe when installing the new rack. And the leak is now coming from where the metal pipe mates to the steel pipe. Soooo……..think I’m going to have to source a new p/s pipe. I know AUTODOC did them, but I bet they are for LHD cars. I know Audi Tradition do them, but they no longer ship to uk. ive cleaned the pipe off, just hope it passes MOT in a couple weeks time.
I also noticed……..an oil leak coming from my recently installed oil pressure setup. When I installed the t-piece for the gauge sender I knew at the time the seals were not fantastic. And sure enough, they’ve let go. So I’ve had all that off and reinstalled with fresh copper washers. I hope this is the last of oil leaks from this t-piece.
I was also doing an oil change today, since I’m now on the change every 6 months schedule. So whilst the filter was out of the way, I thought I’d install the crank sensor I bought a while back. East enough, just awkward to see the bolt head when your trying to get your hex socket onto it. Im really just eliminating things here that could cause my hot start issues.
So whilst we’re fixing things for the starting issue, I also installed my brand new Bosch fuel pressure regulator. From the thread of the previous owner I thought they had changed it, but this was the original one.
Whilst underneath, I also wanted to double check the gearbox oil level, as I wasn’t happy with that the other day either. So I’ve now put in a LucasOil gearbox treatment, which it took plenty of. So I was a little low. I know, that this gearbox is past its best and needing a refurb really. So it’s just a case so trying to quiet it down and make it a little nicer to get into gear now.
Dropped the anti-freeze whilst under the car as well. Made sure to keep hold of it as it’s new not so long ago. I could then replace the 2 pipes I ordered from UROTuning. The first pipe was the top hose, and the second pipe was the heater core input hose. The heater hose was a right pain to get back in. I also installed at this point my new aluminium temp sender housing, so I’m hoping this will now cease to be a cause of coolant leaks going forward.
So, big list of jobs ticked off today:
- oil change
- cure oil leak from oil pressure sender t-piece
- install Bosch fuel pressure regulator
- install brand new crank sensor
- check gearbox level, fill up with LucasOil.
- change top hose
- change heater matrix hose
- install aluminium coolant sender housing
- bleed coolant system
Think I need a beer and a rest now. Lol
I dont seem to take many pictures of these jobs, think I was just head down cracking on, thankful I wasn’t getting rained on.