Removing and installing propshaft flange — AUDI
Removing and installing propshaft flange on Audi: 11 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 codes S1, 2H
- Special tools named: puller
📋 Procedure
- Remove propshaft Transfer box and final drive39Propshaft; Removing and installing propshaft.
- Screw counter-hold tool3145 onto propshaft flange.
- Remove bolt for propshaft flange.
- Screw bolt M12 x 1.5 mm (120 mm in length) into output shaft.
- Fit Kukko 18-1 puller with thrust pieceVW 431.
- Pull propshaft flange off output shaft.
- Use a thread chaser, for example, to clear residual locking fluid from the threaded hole in output shaft.
- Apply locking fluid to thread of bolt for propshaft flange Electronic Parts Catalogue.
- Apply a bead of sealant under bolt head and under washer (gearbox side) Electronic Parts Catalogue.
- Insert bolt for propshaft flange with washer and tighten it.
- Install propshaft Transfer box and final drives39Propshaft; Removing and installing propshaft.
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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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