[Daily car maintenance] In a mobile palace on land, the Audi A8 replaced the water pump to solve the water leakage problem
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9 Hello everyone, this is a column focusing on car repair and maintenance. There are car mysteries you don’t know, and it will teach you how to avoid the big pits on the road of car ownership. I believe that not only you but also many people have a certain sense of obscurity about the car aftermarket, which will help you uncover the unknown stories of car repair and maintenance.
The concept of Audi brand has always been a sense of technology, and I used to think it was almost no different from the other two German Mercedes-Benz and BMW. It didn’t even show any qualitative difference. It wasn’t until I met Audi A8 that I found out how Audi used its car-building concept to improve its sense of technology.
Since 2012, Audi has adopted a new tail logo to mark different engines and configurations. 30, 40, 45, 50, 55 are used to indicate the acceleration capacity of the engine, in other words, the greater the numerical value, the stronger the acceleration capacity, the greater the engine displacement. Quattro is a logo of Audi’s four-wheel drive, displayed with a gecko. It means that Audi’s four-wheel drive system has the same grip as a gecko, but it is not the homonym of “disaster avoidance” as the Chinese people say.
If the light factory is Audi, matrix headlights plus LED light sources have long been Audi’s technology. The effect at night can be described as shaking your eyes. The chrome trim runs through the center of the taillight, which is very three-dimensional.
Now that it comes to the interior, A8’s exclusive yacht handle still needs to be displayed. But now the new A6 and A4 also use this yacht-style handle. The interior of A8 is not much of a surprise, not much different from its younger brothers A6 and A4. The overall style is very similar, unlike those Japanese models, each car is almost completely different. The familial feature is very poor, but in recent years Toyota has also come up with the idea of making it all look the same. For details, please refer to Lexus.
The mechanical dashboard with liquid crystal is the first choice, but now it has been replaced by the dashboard with full liquid crystal.
Almost forgot the theme, the mileage of this unit has just reached 110000 kilometers, the water pump actually leaked. Water pump leakage is a big problem and can not be underestimated, must be timely maintenance, if high temperature, for all-aluminum engine is fatal damage.
The engine compartment of the A8 is very neat, mainly because Audi’s 3.0T engine is very neat. Audi also plans to replace the turbocharger with a twin turbocharger instead of a full shutdown of the 3.0T supercharged engine.
The pump of A8 is driven by a multi-wedge belt driven by a crankshaft, and the pump is driven by the one inside. It needs to be noted that the installation of the multi-wedge belt also has a direction, so it is necessary to mark it during the disassembly. If it is installed upside down, it will not take long for this multi-wedge belt to be abandoned.
When the pump is removed, look carefully at the sealing ring around it. I found traces of the bending of the sealing ring at the top, where the antifreeze leaked.
This is the installation end of the pump, which uses the rotation of the pump to drive the flow of water and cool the engine. It should be easy to understand that because there is no oil lubrication, the life of this water pump is very short. So you will find that many times in the process of changing the timing belt will be replaced along with the pump.
The new pump ~ the pipe next to the pump is connected to the interface of the vacuum line. The drainage capacity of the pump is controlled by vacuum, which is also called variable vector control pump. It means that the heat dissipation capacity of the pump can be changed, and the purpose is to cooperate with the engine to control the water temperature to maximize the power of the engine.
This is the state in which the pump is turned off when the vacuum is at its maximum. A wall will be built around the pump to surround it because the pump cannot cut off power. Using another method to surround the pump, the drainage capacity of the pump is reduced, and then the variable vector control pump is realized.
After the replacement of the water pump, the antifreeze is almost leaking, and the antifreeze must be reinjected. The expansion tank is a good thing, just charge it directly from here.
Antifreeze is the champion brand from the United States, and the replacement cycle is about three years. Be sure to pay attention to protection when replacing ethylene glycol, because ethyl alcohol itself is toxic. Both steam and liquid can cause poisoning, and a paper cup-sized meter can easily be put into an adult.
After filling the antifreeze must be exhaust, the engine internal gas can not be discharged will cause the engine antifreeze circulation is not smooth, leading to the engine high temperature. There are two special vents above the supercharger for exhaust, which can be easily unscrewed with a Phillips screwdriver. The specific exhaust method is to start the vehicle, and then unscrew the exhaust hole until there is a stable bubble-free water flowing out evenly, which proves that there is no residual air.
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