[urq] I lost my powersteering and then power brakes.

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Steve,

If it's the 5-cyl pump on the Coupe GT it is the same one (which ids the
same one for the early (through 1983) Audi 5000s.

I'm guessing you have the IST (Introductory Service Training) booklet (65
pages).  There's a fair amount written about the hydraulic setup in it.

Ingo

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:48 PM, steven j <michellepfeiffersx at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Ingo -
>  Ah - i left the car at work because it's raining.  Even when it is home
> things are hard to check because the starter heat soaks (leaving car on
> street) and my driveway is a hill and i have two cars filling the garage
> BUT I DOn't think I'm loosing any fluid.  Too bad I never looked before.
>
> Pump Belt was tightened last week.
>
> I do happen to have an 83 CGT also.  If the #'s on the pump are the same as
> the urq pump I could try swapping it.  One on CGT says 75bar - that seems
> high to me.
>
>
> steve
>
> --- On *Mon, 4/20/09, Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [urq] I lost my powersteering and then power brakes.
> To: "steven j" <michellepfeiffersx at yahoo.com>
> Cc: urq at audifans.com
> Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 11:23 AM
>
> I'm leaning toward the pump, as the bomb is really for reserve braking.
> I'm curious, though.  Did the level drop -- did you loose all  or almost all
> of the PS fluid? How's the belt?  Is it tight enough?
>
> I have not yet seen a total failure of the pump -- they'll leak, but I
> haven't seen one fail entirely, especially since the Urq pump is not the
> high pressure type as on later Audis.
>
> -Ingo
>
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 8:45 AM, steven j wrote:
>
> > I lost my powersteering first - that got me to open up the hydrolic
> reservoir for the first time in 5 years.   I I pumped the pedal a bunch of
> times, It was down about 3 inches, so pulled the suction hose & drained it,
> checked the filters ,  replaced the paper 857???384 filter and topped it up
> with Dexron III.   The woody bottom filter looked ok.    After that on the
> roadtest the power assist for the brakes also disappeared 90% of the
> time.   So I've driven it here and there but no improvement.  Any ideas if I
> need a bomb or new pump?
> > I haven't noticed any big leaks.   The PS rack boot is torn.
> > steve
> >
> >
> >
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