Removing and installing chain sprocket: Audi A3 (AFB, AJM, AKE, AKN, …)
Step-by-step removing and installing chain sprocket for the Audi A3: 10 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 A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
- Special tools named: puller
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Remove sealing flange (pulley end) .
- Remove sump .
- Remove oil pump sprocket, chain tensioner and chain .
- Detach chain sprocket from crankshaft with puller (2); use a suitable washer (1) to protect end of crankshaft.
- ⚠ Wear protective gloves. — Heat chain sprocket in oven for approx. 15 minutes to 220°C.
- Using pliers, locate sprocket on end of crankshaft.
- Push sprocket onto crankshaft as far as the stop using drift sleeve30 - 100.
- Install oil pump sprocket, chain tensioner and chain .
- Install sump .
- Install sealing flange (pulley end) .
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing coolant pump – Audi A1 · 6 torque figures
- Removing, installing and checking thermostat – Audi · 4 torque figures
- Measuring radial clearance of conrods – Audi A3 · 8 torque figures
- Checking compression – Audi A6 C5 · 5 torque figures
- Removing and installing oil pump – Audi A8 D3 · 5 torque figures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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