Removing and installing rear bonded rubber bush for rear final drive — AUDI
Removing and installing rear bonded rubber bush for rear final drive 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: platform codes SF, SG
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- Mark installation location of bonded rubber bush for gearbox, e.g. using felt pen.
- Thrust piece T50008/4 must be pressed completely to cross member.
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear final drive together with gearbox carrier .
- Remove gearbox carrier from rear final drive .
- Unscrew bolts (1) and remove cross member (2).
- Mark installation location of bonded rubber bush for gearbox, e.g. using felt pen.
- Press bonded rubber bush out of cross member as shown in figure.
- Press bonded rubber bush into cross member as shown in figure.
- Thrust piece T50008/4 must be pressed completely to cross member.
- Install cross member.
- Screw on cross member »finger-tight« using bolts (1) .
- Then align the cross member centrally to the bolt holes. Tighten bolts (1).
- Install gearbox carrier on rear final drive .
- Install rear final drive together with gearbox carrier .
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