Removing and installing bonded rubber bushes for final drive — AUDI
Removing and installing bonded rubber bushes for final 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: Audi TT Mk1 (8N)
📋 Procedure
- First remove spring.
- Remove subframe complete with final drive.
- Support final drive.
- Remove multi-point socket head bolts.
- Detach cross member from final drive.
- Loosen multi-point socket head bolt (1).
- Move final drive approx. 15 ... 20 mm (arrow).
- Set up special tools.
- Extract bonded rubber bush by turning spindle.
- Set up special tools.
- Pull in bonded rubber bush by turning spindle.
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