Checking constant velocity joint — AUDI
Checking constant velocity joint on Audi: 10 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T5 (7J), VW Transporter T6 (7E), VW Transporter T6 (7F)
- Renewed: joint
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- Excessive backlash in joint will be noticed as load change shocks. In such cases, renew joint. Smooth spots or marks from running on balls are not reasons for renewing joint.
📋 Procedure
- Swing ball hub and ball cage.
- Press out joint part in direction of (arrow).
- Press balls out of cage.
- Tip ball hub out of ball cage via ball race (arrows).
- Check joint part, ball hub, ball cage and balls for pitting and seizing marks. [Note: Excessive backlash in joint will be noticed as load change shocks. In such cases, renew joint. Smooth spots or marks from running on balls are not reasons for renewing joint.]
- Insert ball hub via the two chamfers in ball cage. Installation position may be chosen freely. Press balls into cage.
- Insert hub with cage and balls tilted into joint piece.
- Swing ball hub into position. Do so by swinging hub far enough out of cage (arrows) that balls have same spacing as races.
- With strong pressure, swing in cage hub (arrow) with balls.
- Press specified quantity of grease into joint body.
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Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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