Removing and installing axle beam, front-wheel drive — AUDI

🧭 Before you start

Remove the rear wheels and strap the car to the hoist, then support the axle beam on a strapped jack. Free the level sender, anti-roll bar clamps, ABS connectors, brake pads and shock absorbers. Remove the leaf spring nuts, saddle plates and U bolts and lower the beam. Reinstall with new securing bolts and nuts, check the leaf spring guide pin locates, and road test.

Fits: VW Caddy IV (SA, 2015–2020)

• Renewed: securing bolts

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• Strap the vehicle to the hoist before taking the axle's weight on the jack.
• Secure the axle beam to the jack with the tensioning strap before lowering it.
• Only new securing bolts and nuts go back in.
• The leaf spring guide pin must engage in the hole in the leaf spring mounting.
• Finish with a road test.

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📋 Procedure

1. Loosen wheel bolts.
2. Raise vehicle.
3. Remove rear wheels.
4. Secure vehicle to hoist at a suitable position using tensioning straps T10038.
5. ⚠ If the vehicle is not strapped down, there is a danger that the vehicle will slip off the lifting platform during assembly work. — Place engine and gearbox jackVAS 6931 or engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A(1) under axle beam (2), and secure it using tensioning strap T10038.

6. Raise axle beam (2) slightly using engine and gearbox jackVAS 6931 or engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A(1).
7. Unscrew nut (1).
8. Pull rear left vehicle level sender G76(2) out of bracket (3).
9. Unscrew bolts (1) of anti-roll bar securing clamps on both sides.
10. Separate electrical connector (4) of ABS speed sensors on both sides.
11. Remove rear left and right brake pads Brake system46Rear brakes; Removing and installing brake pads.
12. Unscrew shock absorber nuts (6) on both sides and remove securing bolts.
13. Remove shock absorbers from rear axle mountings.
14. Unscrew nuts (2) on both sides securing leaf springs.
15. Remove saddle plates (3) and U bolts (5) from axle beam.
16. Lower axle beam using engine and gearbox jackVAS 6931 or engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A.
17. Loosen tensioning strap on universal support, and lift axle beam off engine and gearbox jackVAS 6931 or engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A. [Note: Only use new securing bolts and securing nuts.Make sure when installing that the leaf spring guide pin engages in the hole in the leaf spring mounting.Perform a road test once all assembly work is complete.]

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