Removing and installing flange shaft (rear): Audi A8 D2
Step-by-step removing and installing flange shaft (rear) for the Audi A8 D2: 14 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
- Also covered elsewhere: Removing and installing propshaft
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- Remove bolt securing flange shaft. To do so, screw two bolts into flange and counterhold flange shaft with suitable lever.
- Take care not to damage the flange on the gearbox housing when levering out the flange shaft.
📋 Procedure
- Partially remove front section of exhaust system 26.
- Remove rear section of exhaust system if necessary.
- Unbolt heat shield (A) for propshaft (arrows).
- Remove bolts from propshaft at transfer box; for description refer to Removing and installing propshaft.
- Slide propshaft together towards rear final drive. The constant velocity joints can be moved axially.
- Tie up or support propshaft.
- Drain gear oil from transfer box .
- Remove bolt securing flange shaft. To do so, screw two bolts into flange and counterhold flange shaft with suitable lever.
- Pull out flange shaft using the bolts already screwed in; loosen with two levers if necessary. [Note: Take care not to damage the flange on the gearbox housing when levering out the flange shaft.]
- Secure flange shaft (rear).
- Bolt propshaft to transfer box Removing and installing propshaft.
- Install heat shield for propshaft .
- Install exhaust system and perform stress-free alignment 26.
- Fill up gear oil in transfer box
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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.
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