Removing and installing cover for front axle drive: Audi A8 D2

🧭 Before you start

Fits: Audi A8 D2 (4D)

• Renewed: gasket

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• The intermediate pinion and pinion gear are symmetrical. However, they must be re-fitted in the same position to make sure the direction of rotation is maintained.
• Before attaching the gasket, apply a thin coating of gear oil to the sealing surface to prevent it from slipping.

📋 Procedure

1. Vehicles with 6-cylinder petrol engine: remove front exhaust pipe (right-side) 26.
2. Unbolt heat shield for selector lever cable on left of gearbox.
3. Slacken bolts on cover for front axle drive in the sequence (14 ... 1) and remove bolts.
4. Place engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A underneath.
5. ⚠ Detach cover for front axle drive from gearbox housing slowly and carefully. Otherwise spur gears could drop out of gearbox.Spur gears which have been dropped on the floor must not be used again. If this happens, the gearbox must be renewed. — Lift off cover for front axle drive.

6. ⚠ Do not remove the spur gears for the front axle drive. Secure the spur gears to prevent them from falling out. — If it is necessary to remove spur gears, mark installation position of intermediate pinion (1) and pinion gear (3). [Note: The intermediate pinion and pinion gear are symmetrical. However, they must be re-fitted in the same position to make sure the direction of rotation is maintained.]
7. Check that dowel sleeve (A) is fitted in cover for front axle drive.
8. Fit new gasket. [Note: Before attaching the gasket, apply a thin coating of gear oil to the sealing surface to prevent it from slipping.]
9. Fit cover for front axle drive.
10. Tighten bolts in two stages as follows:
11. Fit bolts (1 … 3) and screw in hand-tight, ensuring that the gap between the cover for the front axle drive and the gearbox housing is reduced evenly all round.
12. Tighten bolts in sequence (1 … 14).
13. Check and top up ATF level in planetary gearbox .

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