Removing and installing cover for final drive: Audi A8 D2
Step-by-step removing and installing cover for final drive for the Audi A8 D2: 18 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 A8 D2 (4D)
- Opens: gearbox oil
- Renewed: gearbox
📋 Procedure
- Remove front exhaust pipe (right side) 26.
- Unbolt heat shield for right-side drive shaft (arrows).
- Unbolt drive shaft (right side) from gearbox flange shaft 40.
- Remove flange shaft (right-side) .
- Remove gearbox support (right-side) .
- Slacken bolts on cover for final drive in the sequence (12 ... 1) and remove bolts.
- ⚠ Detach cover for final drive from gearbox housing slowly and carefully. The differential may otherwise fall out of the gearbox.A differential which has fallen to the ground can no longer be installed. Renew gearbox if differential has fallen to the ground. — Remove cover for final drive.
- ⚠ Take care that the outer race for the tapered roller bearing or the shim for the differential does not fall out of the final drive cover.The outer race for the tapered roller bearing must be re-installed in the same position.Thickness of shim has been measured to fit; the shim must not be replaced with another shim of different thickness. — Remove O-ring (arrow) from cover for final drive.
- Lubricate new O-ring with gear oil.
- Tighten bolts securing cover for final drive in two stages as follows:
- Hand-tighten bolts (1 … 3).
- Tighten bolts in sequence (1 … 12).
- Install flange shaft (right-side) .
- Bolt drive shaft (right-side) to gearbox flange 40.
- Install heat shield for drive shaft (right-side).
- Install gearbox support (right-side) .
- Install front exhaust pipe (right-side) 26.
- Check gear oil level in front final drive .
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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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