Automatic gearbox 097 — Dismantling and assembling 1st to 3rd gear clutch -K1- with turbine shaft on gearboxes from 11.92 onwards — AUDI
Automatic gearbox 097 — Dismantling and assembling 1st to 3rd gear clutch -K1- with turbine shaft on gearboxes from 11.92 onwards on Audi: 14 steps.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform code 8G
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- Engage locating lugs correctly.
- Ensure that the ends of the piston rings are hooked together.
- Press two ends of piston ring apart and remove; do not twist piston ring out of groove on one side.
📋 Procedure
- Press piston cap with intermediate spring ring down far enough for the circlip (arrow) to be inserted in the groove.
- Install pressure plate (a) with smooth side facing inner plate and stepped side towards inner plate carrier.
- Install 3 inner plates (b) and 2 outer plates (c).
- Clip in supporting ring with step (arrows) facing upwards. [Note: Engage locating lugs correctly.]
- Install corrugated washer and remaining plates in clutch housing .
- First insert corrugated washer.
- Insert 2 mm thick outer plate.
- Insert remaining inner and outer plates.
- To fit circlip (black arrow), lift inner plate carrier slightly (white arrows).
- Ensure that the ends of the piston rings are hooked together.
- Press ends of piston ring together and release by hand.
- Press two ends of piston ring apart and remove; do not twist piston ring out of groove on one side.
- Fit piston ring in groove.
- To hook ends together press sides of ring in and guide ends over one another.
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The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
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