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Dismantling and assembling transfer box: Audi (ABCD)

Step-by-step dismantling and assembling transfer box for the Audi (ABCD): 19 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.

19 steps 1 engine code

🧭 Before you start

Fits: platform codes S1, 2H

  • Opens: engine oil, gearbox oil

Don't miss

  • The magnet (arrow) will fall out of the transfer box when the transfer box halves are separated.

🔧 Engine codes this applies to

📋 Procedure

  1. Raise vehicle 11Description of work; Raising vehicle.
  2. Remove oil filler plug (1).
  3. Unscrew oil drain plug (2).
  4. Drain gear oil.
  5. Screw in oil filler plug (1) and oil drain plug (2).
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  1. Remove transfer box .
  2. Place transfer box on a clean surface.
  3. Remove seal for propshaft flange .
  4. Remove seal for input shaft flange .
  5. Remove seal for output shaft flange .
  6. Use commercially available circlip pliers to remove circlip (arrow) from output shaft.
  7. Remove Hall sender for transfer box G759.
  8. Remove circlip (1).
  9. Unscrew bolts (arrows) from transfer box.
  10. Use a commercially available hammer shaft, for example, to separate transfer box halves in (direction of arrow).
  11. Pull apart transfer box halves in (direction of arrow). [Note: The magnet (arrow) will fall out of the transfer box when the transfer box halves are separated.] [Note: Note fitting location of magnet (arrow).]
  12. Clean sealing surface of transfer box halves.
  13. Apply sealantElectronic Parts Catalogue to sealing surface of gearbox housing.
  14. Check oil in transfer box .

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Workshop data on this page last updated 20 Sep 2026.