What happens when the water pump seizes on an I5 ...

[Huw Powell]

> If it's the seal - good luck.  You will need extreme patience to get it
> out with standard picks.  Audi have a service tool that is essentially
> a number of pick points arranged in a circle - you put it on the seal
> and drive it round to engage all the points, then pull it off.  Don't
> try and borrow one from Reg Vardy's in Leicester - they haven't got one
> themselves.
> 
> Otherwise - oil pump has to come off.  New sump and oil pump gaskets,
> new tab washer and gasket for the oil pickup.  Drop the front of
> the front subframe, take off the bracket between the engine and the
> bell housing, drop the (empty!) sump, remove the tab washer from the
> front of the oil pickup pipe, take out the bolts, then go up the
> front and take out the oil pump bolts.  Once the oil pump is on the
> bench, the crank seal can be tapped out from behind with good drifts.
> 
> Make sure you align the oil pump and the crank X-drive when replacing
> the oil pump.
> 
> Total about four hours first time out, dropping to just over two with
> practice.

1. the seal can be removed with a sheetrock screw and replaced with a
piece of PVC pipe (yow)

or

2. the tool I've seen here in the US actually screws into the seal and
then pulls it out, there is a tool consisting of a pair of pieces of
delrin for reinstalling.

-- 
Huw Powell

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