[V8] fuel pump sender locking ring removal?

[Karl Middlebrooks]

Thanks. I just wanted a sanity check before I went tapping on the thing with a flat metal bar and a rubber mallet. Which, in the end, is what got the thing to rotate without any damage to it.

Not having done a lot of this work before, I'm a little overcautious about doing something that might leave something in a state where it can't be reassembled without proper application of large amounts of cash, and a real mechanic looking at me like, "What the hell did you think you were doing?"

> From: ekellock at gmail.com
> To: benzeenprophet at hotmail.com; v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: RE: [V8] fuel pump sender locking ring removal?
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:09:30 -0700
> 
> I have only done this once, but I was able to put on a heavy leather glove
> and get that ring loose with just my hand.  I am not especially strong and
> my hands are probably smaller than average so maybe I was just lucky.
> 
> Ed
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: v8-bounces at audifans.com 
> > [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Karl Middlebrooks
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:52 PM
> > To: Audi V8Q Mailing list
> > Subject: [V8] fuel pump sender locking ring removal?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Looking at the manuals didn't give me a sense of this until I 
> > got in there....
> > 
> > The locking ring that holds the fuel sender in place needs to 
> > come out, so I can get to the fuel pump. Having disconnected 
> > the cottonpickin' thing and looking at the locking ring, it 
> > looks like you can't just twist it off with your hands and 
> > even with a short pry bar turned sideways across the grooves, 
> > I can't get enough leverage to budge it...rather, I'm afraid 
> > that if I put too much leverage on two points of that ring, 
> > I'll foul it up for good.
> > 
> > From the diagrams in the manual, it looks like there's a 
> > special tool (3087) that's used. Any BTDT with getting that 
> > thing off without the tool? I don't really wanna put the fuel 
> > lines and everything back together, since I'm halfway to 
> > getting the fuel pump out, but if I have to, I will, and take 
> > it up another day.
> > 
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