[s-cars] Pentosin Fountain Shut Down

[Robert Myers]

Hi Y'all,

An unpleasant occurrence in the dark of night with virtually zero ambient
lighting has been turned into a surprisingly easy repair.  On the advice of
several list members I purchased this morning a halfway decent quality 3/8
inch hand impact driver (NAPA part #1140)and a 11/16 inch 3/8" drive
drag-link socket (NAPA part #NB-85, $41.87 total for both).  Two relatively
gentle blows with a hammer on the impact driver loosened the PS X cap to
finger tight.  I removed it and the old O-ring which was (still is, for
that matter) in terrible condition.  I took the cap and the old O-ring to
my local hardware store and purchased three O-rings of the appropriate size
from their stock ($0.93 total for all three), came back home and inserted
the plug with its new O-ring and tightened everything back down.  Total
elapsed time for the repair, including two 20 mile round trips to town
first for tools and the O-rings plus a few minutes for swapping lies, was
approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes.  Perhaps 7 minutes of that time was
spent actually working on the car.  The only slight difficulty came when
trying to get the threads started when replacing the plug.  That took a few
tries from a moderately awkward position.

The Pentosin fountain is no more - for now at least.  It sure beat buying a
new P$ pump from Audi, even if I have to do the repair again at more or
less yearly intervals.  Thanks to the s-car list.

That left me with the tools and two extra O-rings.  Would anybody care to
guess what items might be finding their way into my in-car tool kit?  :-)

Thanks for the advice, friends.


Bob
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