Audi A4, S4

since 2000 release

Repair and operation of the car

Removal and installation/adjustment of a cowl

1 — the Cowl
2 — the Loop
3 — Two bolts, 21nm

4 — Two nuts, 21nm
5 — the Gas-filled emphasis

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER

Open a cowl
Disconnect a negative cable (-) of the battery.

Observe indications of the Section Replacement of the Battery.

Disconnect a hose and disunite the windscreen washer jet socket.
For possibility of the subsequent installation mark the provision of a cowl.
Ask the assistant to take a cowl (1). A small screw-driver raise a lock spring (arrow) a little. Disconnect a gas-filled emphasis (5) from the top spherical support.
Turn off on two nuts (4) Leva and on the right and remove a cowl together with the assistant.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER

Establish a cowl together with the assistant on a loop (2). Adjust the provision of a cowl on earlier put tag.
Establish and record a gas-filled emphasis on a spherical support.
Close a cowl and expose it, observing gaps, see below.
Tighten nuts (4) moment 21nm.
Installation is carried out in sequence, the return to removal.
Attach a negative cable (-) of the battery.

Observe indications of the Section Replacement of the Battery.

Check/adjustment

PERFORMANCE ORDER

Check gaps on a cowl contour. Gaps have to be uniform on all perimeter of a prileganiye to body elements. And — 5.5 ± 0.5 mm In — 5.5 ± 0.5 mm With — 3.5 ± 0.5 mm D — 4.0 ± 0.5 mm E — 1.5 ± 0.5 mm F — 1.5 ± 0.5 mm G — 2.5 ± 0.5 mm
Weaken a nut (4) a little, address to *an illustration* at the beginning of the section.
Close a cowl and expose it on wings. Adjust the provision of a cowl. Carefully open the exposed cowl not to shift it. Tighten nuts of fastening of loops the moment 21nm.
Weaken 4 bolts of fastening so that it was possible to displace the lock (1).
Adjust a cowl by shift of the lock on height. Tighten bolts of fastening of the lock the moment 14nm.
Adjust the provision of a cowl on height in relation to wings. For this purpose screw a forward emphasis (1) and (2) at a cowl. By a reversing of an emphasis adjust cowl height in relation to wings. Put a little plasticine between a cowl and wings and check, whether has an emphasis at the closed cowl contact with the forward panel. An emphasis at the closed cowl has to adjoin to the forward panel.

Utilization of a gas-filled emphasis

PERFORMANCE ORDER

If the gas-filled emphasis is replaced, it is necessary to let out gas from an old emphasis.

For this purpose clamp an emphasis in a vice in the area designated on an accompanying illustration (x = 50 mm).

Clamp an emphasis surely only and the specified area, otherwise there is a danger of accident! Then nadpilit the cylinder at distance of one third of total length of a basic mark from a rod. For protection against emission of oil cover the region of a cut with a rag. Besides, in time a pileniye use goggles.