Removing and installing master cylinder with mounting bracket removed — AUDI
Removing and installing master cylinder with mounting bracket removed 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: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T6 (7E), VW Transporter T6 (7F)
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- The retainer (A) must be fitted to the master cylinder operating rod (B).
- Press clutch pedal in (direction of arrow) until it engages. Ensure that it is properly locked.
📋 Procedure
- Carefully clamp lower section of clutch pedal mounting bracket in vice having jaw protectors.
- Remove over-centre spring .
- Move clutch pedal to rest position.
- Press sides of retainer inwards in (direction of arrow) using pliers T10005.
- Pull clutch pedal in direction of retainer (A) for clutch pedal switch.
- Then unscrew securing nuts for master cylinder on mounting bracket.
- Turn retainer of master cylinder operating rod through 90°.
- Remove master cylinder from mounting bracket studs.
- Tighten new securing nuts for master cylinder to mounting bracket to specified torque.
- The retainer (A) must be fitted to the master cylinder operating rod (B).
- Press clutch pedal in (direction of arrow) until it engages. Ensure that it is properly locked.
- Install over-centre spring .
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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.
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