Rear locking differential 1988 90Q

[Louis-Alain Richard]

The leak is often in the rubber boot over the actuating arm, hence the partial failure. The diaphragm is OK.

Repair is difficult since the plastic is very brittle and the boot is not available separately. I use some Mercedes-Benz door lock
actuator from the mid-80s on my urQ. Almost identical, except for the color (MB black, Audi beige) and probably plastic material.
You'll have to swap the plastic connector from the old one. Otherwise, they work well.

40$ here : https://mercedessource.com/node/1286 

Louis-Alain

 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De la part de Radek
Envoyé : 7 août 2012 11:29
À : quattro at audifans.com
Objet : Rear locking differential 1988 90Q

So now that the diff is out, we can clearly see the cause of it being locked all the time.  As I suspected, the plastic vacuum
actuator has broken off at one of the three screws and is moving around a bit.  I used a vacuum pump:  it seems to be holding vacuum
when the "on" side (yellow striped hose) is activated, but doesn't hold it when the "off" side (blue striped hose) has vacuum
applied.  This is odd, because I would expect a single membrane inside, so if it's broken there would be no vacuum held on both
sides.  To put things differently, the actuator has enough strength to engage the lock, but not enough to disengage it.

I would like to take it off the diff to clean, inspect and repair/replace.  Here's the question:  how do I separate it from the
diff?  The actuator arm has a pin at the pivot point, but it seems to be permanent.  Can I pull the arm out of the actuator or out
of the differential perhaps?  Bentley does not offer any help (or I haven't found it).
TIA

Radek.
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