Checking wheel bearing play, Crafter 4MOTION with Achleitner four-wheel drive — AUDI
Checking wheel bearing play, Crafter 4MOTION with Achleitner four-wheel drive on Audi: 11 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: platform codes 2EA, 2ED, 2EH, 2EX, 2EB, 2EE, 2EK, 2FC, 2FF, 2FL, 2FZ, 2FG, 2FM
- Special tools named: dial gauge
📋 Procedure
- Remove front wheel.
- If fitted, remove wheel flange .
- Remove brake caliper together with brake carrier and secure with wire so that weight of brake caliper does not stress or damage brake hose Brake systems46Brakes - mechanism.
- Secure dial gaugeVAS 6079(2) with universal dial gauge holderVW 387(1) to wheel bearing housing.
- Screw in a guide pin T10200(3) on the opposite side of the measuring point of universal dial gauge holderVW 387(1).
- Screw in a commercially available bolt "“M 14 × 1.5”"(4) on opposite side of guide pin T10200(3).
- »Tilt« wheel bearing back and forth and read wheel bearing play on universal dial gauge holderVW 387(1).
- If the specified values are not achieved, adjust wheel bearing play .
- Install brake caliper with brake carrier Brake systems46Brakes - mechanism.
- If fitted, install wheel flange .
- Install front wheel.
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Replacing wheel bearing housing
- Servicing wheel bearing housing
- Removing, installing and servicing pedal cluster for vehicles with 169 kW engine
- Removing and installing strut and drive shaft
- Removing and installing front door trim (4- and 5-cylinder > 06.93)
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