Removing and installing left flange shaft, 5-speed manual gearbox — AUDI
Removing and installing left flange shaft, 5-speed manual gearbox on Audi: 15 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: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T5 (7J), VW Transporter T6 (7E)
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- Counterhold flange shaft using a lever.
- Do not damage the flange shaft seal.
📋 Procedure
- Remove front left wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle 19.1Description of work; Raising vehicle with lifting platform and trolley jack.
- Remove left wheel.
- If fitted, remove noise insulation General body repairs, exterior50Assembly overview - noise insulation.
- Remove left drive shaft Removing and installing drive shafts.
- Position drip tray for workshop hoistVAS 6208 underneath gearbox.
- Screw two securing bolts (1) of drive shaft into flange (2).
- Unscrew securing bolt (3) for flange (2). [Note: Counterhold flange shaft using a lever.]
- Pull out flange shaft (1) with compression spring in (direction of arrow).
- Insert flange shaft with compression spring. [Note: Do not damage the flange shaft seal.]
- Tighten flange shaft with countersunk bolt. [Note: Counterhold flange shaft using a lever.]
- Install left drive shaft Removing and installing drive shafts.
- Check gear oil Power transmission34Manual gearbox, ASSY, differential lock; Removing and installing gearbox; Checking gear oil.
- If present, install noise insulation General body repairs, exterior50Assembly overview - noise insulation.
- Install wheel 19.1Description of work; Tightening wheel bolts to specified torque.
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- Checking voltage supply and current consumption of fuel system pressurisation pump G6, engine codes CFHC, CFHE, CFHF, CLCA, CLCB, CFJA
- Emptying fuel tank, front-wheel drive, engine codes CAYD, CAYE, CFHC, CFHF, CLCA, CUUB, CUUC, CUUD, CUUE, CUUF
- Installing cover for gearbox housing and 5th gear
- Removing and installing brake caliper, floating caliper disc brake FN3
- Removing and installing rear brake cable, brake caliper FN 44
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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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