Removing and installing stub shaft (right-side): Audi A3

🧭 Before you start

Fits: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)

• Opens: gearbox oil
• Renewed: gear oil
• Also covered elsewhere: Running gear, front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive40

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• Tie-up drive shaft as high as possible. Do not damage paint on drive shaft.
• Hold opposite wheel in position to loosen bolt.
• The gear oil must be renewed; the correct gear oil level cannot be achieved otherwise.

📋 Procedure

1. Shift selector lever into position "“P”".
2. If fitted, detach heat shield for drive shaft from engine (arrows).
3. Remove nuts (arrows) securing swivel joint (right-side).
4. Disengage swivel joint from wishbone. [Note: The bolt securing the drive shaft at the wheel end does not have to be removed.The drive shaft does not have to be removed; it is sufficient to tie it up.The drive shaft must not be left suspended under its own weight; excessive bending will damage the inner joint.]
5. Use assembly lever to press drive shaft (right-side) off gearbox Running gear, front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive40.

6. Tie-up drive shaft as high as possible. Do not damage paint on drive shaft.
7. Place used oil collection and extraction unitV.A.G 1782 below gearbox.
8. Use hexagon keyV.A.G 1669 to remove bolt (arrow) in stub shaft. [Note: Hold opposite wheel in position to loosen bolt.]
9. Pull out stub shaft (right-side).
10. Renew O-ring (1) on stub shaft.
11. Renew circlip (2) on stub shaft; for description refer to Running gear, front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive40.
12. Press drive shaft onto stub shaft of gearbox until circlip snaps into place Running gear, front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive40.
13. Renew gear oil . [Note: The gear oil must be renewed; the correct gear oil level cannot be achieved otherwise.]

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