Removing front flexible coupling: Audi TT Mk1
Step-by-step removing front flexible coupling for the Audi TT Mk1: 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: Audi TT Mk1 (8N)
📋 Procedure
- Remove centre noise insulation (arrows).
- Detach air hose from turbocharger at air pipe.
- Disconnect exhaust system at clamp (arrows)
- Unscrew mounting for exhaust system from subframe, if fitted.
- Unbolt flexible coupling with heat shield from front propshaft tube (only one of the three bolts is shown on illustration (arrow)).
- Press front propshaft tube to rear as far as possible.
- Disconnect flexible coupling from bevel box flange (arrows).
- Unbolt pendulum support from subframe (arrows (A)).
- Carefully press engine/gearbox assembly to front.
- Now carefully remove flexible coupling.
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The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
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