
1 Cooling system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
1.1 Connection diagram for coolant hoses for vehicles with manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
1.2 Connection diagram for coolant hoses for vehicles with automatic transmission . . . . . . . . 181
1.3 Draining and filling coolant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.4 Checking cooling system for leaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
2 Coolant pump and positioning element for engine temperature control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
2.1 Coolant pump and positioning element for engine temperature control - Summary of
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
2.2 Coolant recirculation pump- Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
2.3 Coolant valve for gearbox N488 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
2.4 Coolant temperature sender - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
2.5 Removing and installing toothed belt for coolant pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
2.6 Removing and installing coolant pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
2.7 Removing and installing coolant recirculation pump V51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
2.8 Removing and installing coolant shut-off valve N82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
2.9 Removing and installing coolant valve for gearbox N488 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
2.10 Removing and installing positioning element for engine temperature control N493 . . . . . . 200
2.11 Removing and installing coolant temperature sender G62 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
2.12 Removing and installing coolant temperature sender at radiator outlet G83 . . . . . . . . . . 203
3 Coolant pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
3.1 Coolant pipe - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
3.2 Removing and installing the front coolant pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
3.3 Removing and installing top coolant pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
4 Radiator and radiator fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
4.1 Cooler for coolant- Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
4.2 Fan shroud with a radiator fan - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
4.3 Removing and installing radiator fan V7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
4.4 Fan shroud with two radiator fans - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
4.5 Installing and removing radiator fans V7 and V177 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
4.6 Removing and installing radiator fan for coolant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
4.7 Removing and installing fan shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
20 - Fuel supply system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
1 Fuel tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
1.1 Fuel containers for vehicles with front-wheel drive - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . 217
1.2 Fuel containers for vehicles with all-wheel drive - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
1.3 Extract fuel from the fuel tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
1.4 Removing and installing fuel tank for vehicles with front-wheel drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
1.5 Removing and installing fuel tank for vehicles with four-wheel drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
1.6 Fuel delivery unit/fuel gauge sender for vehicles with front-wheel drive - Summary of
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
1.7 Fuel delivery unit/fuel gauge sender for vehicles with four-wheel drive - Summary of
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
1.8 Removing and installing fuel delivery unit and fuel gauge sender G on vehicles with front-
wheel drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
1.9 Removing and installing fuel delivery unit and fuel gauge sender G on vehicles with four-
wheel drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
1.10 Removing and installing the sender for fuel gauge display G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
1.11 Removing and installing fuel gauge sender 2 G169 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
1.12 Testing fuel pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
1.13 Removing and installing fuel pump control unit J538 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
1.14 Suction spray pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
2 Separating push-on couplings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
3 Accelerator pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
3.1 Accelerator pedal module - Summary of components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
3.2 Removing and installing accelerator module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
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