Removing and installing bonded rubber bush for wheel bearing housing — AUDI
Removing and installing bonded rubber bush for wheel bearing housing on Audi: 12 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)
- Special tools named: 3292
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- Apply the parting tool3292 and tighten with the spindle. In doing so, the edges of the tool must be applied exactly between the collar of the bonded rubber bush and the wheel bearing housing.
📋 Procedure
- Fold over the metal collar of the bonded rubber bush slightly.
- Apply the parting tool3292 and tighten with the spindle. In doing so, the edges of the tool must be applied exactly between the collar of the bonded rubber bush and the wheel bearing housing.
- Insert the pin3293/1.
- Then apply the extractor3349 such that the edges are positioned exactly between the bonded rubber bush and the wheel bearing housing.
- Turn the spindle (2) until the bonded rubber bush is lifted slightly off the wheel bearing housing.
- Now tighten bolts (1).
- Fit the bridge3292/2 in position.
- Press out one of the two bonded rubber bushes by turning the hexagon bolt (1).
- Insert the thrust piece3349/1 and the spindle from 3292.
- Pull out bonded rubber bush by turning spindle.
- Fit the two bonded rubber bushes in position together with the thrust piece3292/3.
- Fit the bonded rubber bushes by turning the spindle.
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