Removing and installing gearbox mounting - vehicles with dual clutch gearbox — AUDI
Removing and installing gearbox mounting - vehicles with dual clutch gearbox on Audi: 13 steps, engines CAXA, CAYB, CAYC, CGWB.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A1 (8X, 2010–2018)
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- Take up weight of engine with the spindle, but do not lift.
- Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.
📐 30 workshop diagrams for CAXA
Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.
📋 Procedure
- Remove air cleaner housing .
- Remove engine cover panel .
- Unscrew nut (1) and bolt (3), and push electronics box (2) to the side.
- Set up support bracket10 - 222 A on top edges of body flanges (left and right) and longitudinal member (left-side), as shown in illustration.
- Attach hook of spindle10 - 222 A /11 to engine lifting eye (left-side).
- Take up weight of engine with the spindle, but do not lift.
- Remove bolts (arrows) securing gearbox mounting.
- Lower engine/gearbox assembly slightly using spindle of support bracket10 - 222 A.
- Remove bolts (arrows A, B, C) and detach gearbox mounting. [Note: Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.]
- Secure gearbox mounting to body; observe tightening torque and sequence.
- Lift gearbox with spindle of support bracket up to support arm of gearbox mounting and tighten bolts securing gearbox mounting to gearbox support.
- Install air cleaner housing .
- Install engine cover panel .
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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