Jacqui

Unfortunately the hose wasn't screwed in, it was a solid compression fitting. My partner solved the problem by fabricating a single piece of brake pipe (left over from building his trike). He has a flaring kit, so cut off the fittings on the old pipe and put them on the new one. After much cursing and swearing, taking out the driver's seat, all the foot pedals falling apart, he eventually got it all fitted back together, and it works brilliantly. He says he needs to bleed the system again to make sure there's no air left, but we've been using it since July 29th.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

Jacqui

Hi Gareth

I have already contacted local hydraulic hose specialists, both locally and further afield with no joy. They don’t do anything that small. I contacted ‘demon tweeks’ and I would have to give them specifications to attempt to find compression fittings that might fit.

Jacqui

Can't find the part anywhere. The only thing I can think of is to find a company who would be able to put a new piece of rubber hose on to the pipe work with compression fittings. Is there such a company?

Well, he finally got the pipe work out. Now to order a new part.

I can find the actual slave cylinder on eBay etc, but not the pipe work. Audi don’t stock the parts for this model any more, so it’s trying to find after market parts.

jacqui

Hi

we have clutch problems on our 1996 a4 b5 1.9tdi AFN engine. Difficulty getting to the split slave cylinder hose to remove it and order new. Does anyone know if it’s just generic hose, or actually attached to the metal pipes? My partner is tearing his hair out trying to get at nuts in impossible places. Thanks Jacqui

Thanks for the welcome.

Jacqui

Thanks for this. As far as we can see, there are no leaks in the turbo hoses, but will check again. Injectors next. 

Regards Jacqui

Hi I have an Audi A4 1.9tdi from 1996. It's been running fine until recently. Now it keeps going into limp mode. I tried switching it on and off and that worked for a bit. Then it went into permanent limp mode. The MAF sensor has been replaced, the vacuum hoses have been replaced and the turbo has been cleaned. EGR valve has been cleaned. Now it is back to occasional limp mode. Diagnostics (ELM327) show no fault codes. Tearing my hair out! Does anyone have any ideas I haven't tried.

Regards Jacqui