Removing and installing transfer gear — AUDI
Removing and installing transfer gear on Audi: factory workshop procedure. Full factory text, tools and checks.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the factory write-up, straight from real workshop data.
📋 Procedure
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Removing
Remove front exhaust pipes.
=> corresponding Workshop Manual for Engine, Mechanical Components; Repair group 26; Removing and installing exhaust system
Remove heat shield for propshaft from cover for Torsen differential -arrows-.
Unscrew propshaft -1- from gearbox and place onto heat shield -2- => Page
39-77
; Removing and installing propshaft.
Secure propshaft with wire -arrow- at bracket -3- of fuel lines.
Drain off gear oil from transfer gear housing => Page
39-40
Loosen securing bolts -arrows- for transfer gear housing in diagonal sequence and remove.
Important:
Pull the housing for the transfer gear backwards from the gearbox housing slowly and carefully. The Torsen differential may otherwise fall out of the gearbox.
Pull off Torsen differential towards rear from output shaft.
Installing
Installation is carried out in the reverse order; note the following:
Check to ensure that the dowel sleeves -arrow A- and -arrow B- are fitted.
Install gasket.
Note:
Thinly coat sealing surface -D- with gear oil in order to prevent slipping of seal.
Clean the magnet and insert it in chamber -1- on the casting of the intermediate flange.
Top up with 200 ml gear oil in Torsen differential casing (see also Topping up gear oil with transfer gear housing removed and dismantled => Page
39-44
).
Attach Torsen differential to splines of output shaft and lowest spur gear. Whilst doing so twist slightly.
Check whether the attached Torsen differential can be turned manually.
Place the transfer gear housing complete with the fitted spur gears and rear drive flange on the gearbox.
Insert bolts for transfer gear housing and tighten to end stage diagonally and in several stages.
Bolt the propshaft onto the gearbox flange => Page
39-77
, Removing and installing propshaft.
Top up transfer gear with gear oil, and check oil level => Page
39-40
Tightening torques
Component · Nm
Transfer gear housing at gearbox housing · 23
Heat shield for propshaft to gearbox · 23
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