[s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine

[Ivan Demkovitch]

Sean,

Water pump was bad. Axle seal was bad. Can't say about O-ring because 
everything was sprayed in coolant under TB cover.

Ivan


>From: "Sean Douglas" <quattro20v at telus.net>
>To: "'Ivan Demkovitch'" <idemkovitch at hotmail.com>,<s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Subject: RE: [s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine
>Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:31:20 -0700
>
>Ivan:
>
>he water pump fail, or was the o-ring bad?
>
>Sean
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ivan Demkovitch [mailto:idemkovitch at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:49 PM
> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com; quattro20v at telus.net
> > Subject: RE: [s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine
> >
> >
> > In my case it was water pump :-( And there was 50k after TB job
> >
> > You probably see it on oil pan as well
> >
> > >Message: 9
> > >Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:08:17 -0700
> > >From: "Sean Douglas" <quattro20v at telus.net>
> > >Subject: [s-cars] Coolant Leak at Front of Engine
> > >To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> > >Message-ID: <000201c5b1ad$ead39300$c332b440 at wsrmd051>
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> > >I was changing my oil today and saw dried coolant drips on
> > the x-over
> > >tube. It looks like it coming from the front of the motor.
> > >
> > >I'm thinking its one of two things;
> > >
> > >1. the water pump
> > >2. the return line to the turbo, the metal pipe looks like it has a
> > >short piece of rubber hose which runs behind the t-belt cover.
> > >
> > >Hopefully, it's the latter as I did the t-belt and water
> > pump about 2
> > >years ago.
> > >
> > >Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >Sean Douglas
> > >1997 Audi S6//RS2-spec
> > >1990 Audi 90 quattro 20v
> > >
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