So I ended up taking most of it apart for a second time and placed the mounting springs and washers in the correct order which has improved things somewhat.
My stupid mistakes added 4 hours onto what turned out to be an easier job than I though.
For reference this is the video I used for dissasembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8lu2auQxQ&t=27s
Although he had other issues in assembly.
I still don't understand why the most critical part, why you screw a brass nut into a plastic thread. it's not because an after market pump was used as even the oem one was plastic.
For more reference, when you place the pump back into the car, the springs and washers sit beneath the pump. The pump effectively sits on the springs and metal washers (all of which have a retainer to hold the spring in place) with a bolt through the centre.
The above is for the petrol V8, I believe the diesel has a very different mounting system.
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2004 A4 1.8T Sport Cabriolet, 89K Miles
Past
2004 D3 A8 3.7 Quattro, Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Solar Sunroof, TV, ACC, phone and almost every option. 168K miles rising slowly
with retrofit AMI and DVB-T in place of Analogue
2003 Volvo S60 D5 SE Manual, 197K miles.
2001 D2 A8 3.7 QS, Bi-Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Electric Everything, retrofitted RNS-D, 191K Miles
Last edited by mannyo; 26th May 2019 at 04:31 AM.
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