RE: Subject: Power Steering Pump Fixed???

[David Rothenberg <David_Rothenberg.JEFFERIES@itginc.com>]

Paul Writes

>Well, it worked....for a while. Got on the highway, blew one of the o-rings (it
>squirmed out). Penosin everywhere! It ended up leaking from the only one that

>Do I have bets on how long it will last? I'm skeptical that it will last at
>least until about 5 miles from Lime Rock on Sunday. Then BOOM, penosin will be

>Let's see, a new pump is about $300, but I would still need one quart of 
penosin
>at $19. So that's $319 to $79 (tools included), but it will probably fail again
>and I got to spend about 6-8 hours fixing it so far!

A rebuilt pump is a bit less than the $300 if you call Shokan or one of the 
other (800) parts houses.

As far as the O-rings go.  I went through the same thing with my 5KS, and 
eventually spoke to some people at Audi.  Now I won't say for sure if they are 
feeding me a line, but their comment was that the O-Rings are not the regular 
rubber O-Rings that we all get at the local store.  I would usually discount 
this, but when I tried to do the O-Ring thing myself, I found the old, cracked 
oring to have much less "sponginess" than I would have expected.  I went for 
the rebuilt unit 5 months ago, no problems (change the copper seal on the banjo 
connections when you do it, or else they will leak too :-)

David
'86 5KS
'86 911
'89 944S2