[s-cars] Pentosin Fountain Shut Down

[Kirby Smith]

You may want to guess what the material of the o-rings you bought is and
investigate their compatibility with pentosyn hydraulic oil.  Viton
would be better, but you would likely have to have your "local" bearing
supply source order some for you.  Maybe McMaster-Carr has some, I've
never looked.

kirby

Robert Myers wrote:
>
> 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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