Renewing crankshaft oil seal (timing chain end): Audi A6 C6 (ASB, ASE, AUK, BAS, …)
Step-by-step renewing crankshaft oil seal (timing chain end) for the Audi A6 C6: 13 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 A6 C6 (4F, 2004–2011)
📋 Procedure
- Remove engine .
- Separate engine from gearbox .
- Remove drive plate .
- Pull shim (arrow) off crankshaft.
- Pry out the oil seal using the oil seal extractor lever T20143/2.
- Clean contact surface and sealing surface.
- Fit assembly aid T10122/1 onto assembly sleeve T10122/2 and slide oil seal (A) onto assembly sleeve.
- Take off assembly aid T10122/1.
- Press new oil seal (1) onto assembly sleeve T10122/2.
- Fit assembly sleeve T10122/2 onto crankshaft.
- Press in oil seal uniformly until flush all round using press sleeve T10122/3.
- Install drive plate .
- Bolt gearbox to engine and install engine/gearbox assembly .
Other AUDI procedures
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- Checking fuel pump delivery rate – Audi A8 D3
- Renewing crankshaft oil seal (gearbox end) – Audi A6 C6
- Renewing camshaft oil seal (toothed belt drive sprocket with M10 securing bolt)
- Removing and installing intermediate pipe (left-side) – Audi
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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