Almost a year with nothing major. Power steering went out yesterday at a store parking lot… No oil anywhere. Just a grindy noise from the pump. Looking at the worst case scenario of having to replace my power steering rack…
Can you even do that without removing the engine?
Hey man. Did I understand correctly that you replaced the power steering pump without dropping the engine?
Would you say a pro mechanics shop should be able to attempt it if I tell them its doable? They looked up the official audi documentation and it says to drop the engine.
I definitely changed it without dropping the engine im trying to remember how I removed it its been a while. I’m pretty sure I removed the subframe to have some room and i had a hydralic jack holding the engine up and I removed the driver side axle because it was blocking the bolts holding in the pump. I did It on the floor in my driveway. Honestly if I went under the car and looked at it. It probably would come back to me but I’m certain I removed the subframe
Thanks bro. The shop was able to change it in 3 hours which kinda amazed me a bit.
What had happened:
I had previously installed a Meyle PS pump as a pre emtive strike. Bad idea.
The problem I now had is: this spline axle or P/S coupling had stripped on the engine side.
I suspect the reason is this:
The Meyle pump was intact but it was soooo damn hard to turn by hand. The oem was way easier. Imagine it at 700rpm and at 130bar. That shit is not good. I hope the oem would work, and that the engine side of the equasion isn’t cooked.
MOT inspection (katsastus) once more flying colors and a friendly engineer said he enjoys the v10 in comparison to all the elextric bs lol
I’m glad to hear it all worked out!
Trying to figure out whats wrong with my sai system, cold start vacuum leak so bad it loses power braking and wants to run into trees and houses. once cold start cycles off its back to running perfectly. Any common failure points in the SAI system that would result in a vac leak?
There are a lot of check valves and off the combi valves there are the vac lines… If you can either remove or you can smoke test out the SAI system by putting the smoke into the vac lines going into the valves.
Replaced my oem? xenons with osram nightbreakers… Parking garage test doesnt show a massive difference with a control camera test. Gotta go for a ride and see if there is any.
