Dismantling and assembling selector lever: Audi A6 C5
Step-by-step dismantling and assembling selector lever for the Audi A6 C5: 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: Audi A6 C5 (4B)
📋 Procedure
- Remove selector lever .
- Drive pivot pin out of selector lever using tubeVW 421.
- Lift pull rod and slide selector gate out of selector lever together with tiptronic spring mechanism.
- Relieve the pressure on the spring and remove the pull rod and spring from the selector lever.
- Fit spring (B) onto pull rod (A).
- Insert pull rod with spring into selector lever.
- Check that pull rod slides freely on the two guides (C) on the selector lever.
- Lift pull rod (D) and slide selector gate (B) with tiptronic spring into selector lever(A).
- Drive pivot pin (C) into selector lever using tubeVW 421.
- To secure pin, make two new punch marks (arrows) (offset 90° from the existing ones).
- Install selector lever .
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