Renewing right seal, vehicles with front-wheel drive — AUDI
Renewing right seal, vehicles with front-wheel drive 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: VW Caddy III (2K, 2004–2015); platform code 2C0
- Opens: gearbox oil
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- Remove flange shaft securing bolt. To do this, screw two bolts into flange shaft and use an assembly lever to counterhold flange shaft as shown in figure.
📋 Procedure
- If fitted, remove noise insulation General body repairs, exterior66Noise insulation; Assembly overview – noise insulation.
- If present, remove heat shield above right drive shaft (arrows).
- Removing right drive shaft from gearbox flange shaft (A)
- Secure drive shaft with wire on vehicle body. [Note: With some engines, the drive shaft cannot be raised and secured high enough that the flange shaft can be pulled out.Then, remove drive shaft Running gear, axles, steering40Drive shafts.]
- Place drip tray or used oil collection and extraction unitV.A.G 1782 underneath.
- Remove flange shaft securing bolt. To do this, screw two bolts into flange shaft and use an assembly lever to counterhold flange shaft as shown in figure.
- Pull out flange shaft with compression spring.
- Pull out oil seal for flange shaft as shown in figure.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of new oil seal.
- Drive in new seal to stop, being careful not to cant seal.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with sealing greaseElectronic Parts Catalogue.
- Press flange shaft against gearbox and secure.
- Install right drive shaft on flange shaft (A)Running gear, axles, steering40Drive shafts.
- If present, install heat shield above right drive shaft (arrows).
- Check gear oil level .
- If present, install noise insulation General body repairs, exterior66Noise insulation; Assembly overview – noise insulation.
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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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