Removing and installing rear flange shaft, oil seal and ball bearing — AUDI
Removing and installing rear flange shaft, oil seal and ball bearing 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: Audi Q5 (8R, 2008–2017), Audi A5 Cabriolet (8F), Audi A5 (8T, 2007–2016), Audi A4 B8 (8K, 2007–2015), Audi A6/A7 C7 (4G, 2011–2018); platform codes 83, 4X
- Also covered elsewhere: Electronic parts catalogue
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- (Item 2) can be disregarded.
📋 Procedure
- Remove centre differential housing .
- Remove circlip (arrow).
- Press out flange shaft (position centre differential housing in such a way that the flange shaft does not make contact with thrust plates VW 401 and VW 402 when it is pressed out).
- Press out flange shaft (allow centre differential housing to rest on plate T40285).
- Lever out oil seal (1). [Note: (Item 2) can be disregarded.]
- If necessary, press out ball bearing for flange shaft and spacer sleeve.
- Press in ball bearing for flange shaft.
- Now press in spacer sleeve using tubeVW 415 A.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of oil seal and drive in onto stop using thrust piece T40165.
- Pack space between sealing lip and dust lip half full with sealing grease; for sealing grease refer to Electronic parts catalogue.
- Press in flange shaft.
- Insert flange shaft into centre differential housing from below.
- Place housing with flange shaft on thrust plateVW 402 under workshop press.
- Press inner bearing race onto flange shaft using drift sleeve30 - 100.
- Fit new circlip (arrow) onto flange shaft.
- Install centre differential housing .
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