[V8] fuel pump sender locking ring removal?

Tue Feb 17 16:24:48 PST 2009

Good point on the grounding and disconnecting the battery. However, where's 
the fun in no smoking ;-) I like to use a lighter to see how much gas is in 
there :P

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingo Rautenberg" <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
To: "Dave Saad" <dsaad at icehouse.net>; <v8-bounces at audifans.com>; "V8List 
Fans" <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] fuel pump sender locking ring removal?

Uh. That reminds me. Make sure you disconnect the battery first. And no 
smoking...

Ingo Rautenberg

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Saad <dsaad at icehouse.net>

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:00:09
To: Audi V8Q Mailing list<v8 at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [V8] fuel pump sender locking ring removal?

Remember to ground the car body to the floor (with  a chain maybe?) -
you don't want any pretty blue sparks whilst you are trapped in the
gas tank.
At minimum, be sure you touch some metal after you get in the trunk
to bring your body and the car body to the same potential.
An incandescent trouble light is also probably not the best choice
for this job either.

I will not soon forget the time I had my arm deep in the gas tank
when I heard the gas fired water heater kick on.  That was fun...

Dave

On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Karl Middlebrooks wrote:

>
> 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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