Removing and installing left stub shaft, 5-speed manual gearbox — AUDI
Removing and installing left stub shaft, 5-speed manual gearbox on Audi: 16 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 stub shaft using counterhold tool T10140 or counterhold tool T50053.
- Do not damage the stub shaft seal.
📋 Procedure
- Loosen front right wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle 19.1Description of work; Raising vehicle with lifting platform and trolley jack.
- Remove right wheel.
- If fitted, remove noise insulation General body repairs, exterior50Assembly overview - noise insulation.
- Remove right drive shaft Removing and installing drive shafts.
- Position drip tray for workshop hoistVAS 6208 underneath gearbox.
- Unscrew stub shaft securing bolt (arrow).
- Counterhold stub shaft using counterhold tool T10140 or counterhold tool T50053.
- Pull out stub shaft (1) with compression spring in (direction of arrow). [Note: Do not damage the stub shaft seal.]
- Insert stub shaft with compression spring.
- Tighten countersunk bolt for stub shaft (arrow).
- Counterhold stub shaft using counterhold tool T10140 or counterhold tool T50053.
- Install right 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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Who makes these pages, and how
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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