Removing and installing rear bonded rubber bush for gearbox carrier — AUDI
Removing and installing rear bonded rubber bush for gearbox carrier on Audi: 10 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 SF, SG
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear final drive together with gearbox carrier 39Final drive; Removing and installing final drive.
- Remove gearbox carrier from rear final drive .
- Fit special tools as shown in figure.
- Press out rear bonded rubber bush.
- Before pressing in, coat rubber bead of bonded rubber bush with lubricant, e.g., soft soap.
- Fit special tools as shown in figure.
- Press in bonded rubber bush (A) as far as it will go.
- After pressing in, lever out rubber bead of bonded rubber bush (A) using removal wedge3409.
- Install gearbox carrier on rear final drive .
- Install rear final drive together with gearbox carrier .
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