Removing and installing the compressor: Removal
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- Remove the cover above the heating/air-conditioning system.
- Remove the refrigerant by suction using the service unit.
- Disconnect the battery and cover the terminal or battery. Remove the complete air filter system.
- Relieve the drive belt on the tensioning pulley and remove the belt.
- Undo the B+ connection (2 nuts M6) on the engine and put it aside.
- Remove the fluid of the power steering in the supply tank until below the connection. Remove the servo-tank (bayonet lock). Observe the marking (arrow) during installation. Seal off the connection against dirt.
- Undo compressor fastening screw between the intake pipes of cylinders 4 and 5.
- Undo the front compressor fastening screws (2 each) and carefully pull the compressor out to the front. The rear fastening screw must be pulled out up to the refrigerant line.NOTE: There is a spacer sleeve between the compressor and engine housing which remains on the engine housing. The screw must be pulled out to over the sleeve in order to remove the compressor.
- Undo the refrigerant lines at the compressor. Immediately close connections and lines with plugs so that they are air-tight.
- Disconnect electrical plug connection and carefully remove the compressor.