Removing and installing gear oil lines (rear) - vehicles with gear oil cooling — AUDI
Removing and installing gear oil lines (rear) - vehicles with gear oil cooling on Audi: 12 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: platform code 42
- Opens: gearbox oil
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- Seal off open lines and connections with clean plugs or sealing caps to prevent dirt from entering.
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear bumper cover General body repairs, exterior63.
- Remove air cleaner housing Injection and ignition system24.
- Remove bolts (1) and detach heat shield (arrow).
- Move electrical wiring clear of gear oil lines.
- Place used oil collection and extraction unitV.A.G 1782 below connection.
- Remove bolt (arrow) and pull gear oil lines out of gear oil thermostat. [Note: Seal off open lines and connections with clean plugs or sealing caps to prevent dirt from entering.]
- Remove nut (3).
- Place used oil collection and extraction unitV.A.G 1782 below connection.
- Remove banjo bolts (1) and (2) and detach gear oil lines. [Note: Seal off open lines and connections with clean plugs or sealing caps to prevent dirt from entering.]
- Install air cleaner housing Injection and ignition system24.
- Install rear bumper cover General body repairs, exterior63.
- Check gear oil level and top up as required .
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- 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
- Removing and installing connecting elements to the various air conditioning unit flaps
- Detaching and attaching brake cable (rear) at brake caliper
- Lifting suspension to unladen position
- Removing and installing coolant supply pipe (right-side)
- Removing and installing starter - vehicles with 4.2 ltr. and 5.2 ltr. FSI engine up to model year 2012
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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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