Servicing end cover - exploded view: Audi A6 C5

🧭 Before you start

Fits: Audi A6 C5 (4B)

• Also covered elsewhere: Electronic parts catalogue

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• The thickness of the circlip must be re-determined if the bearing or the end cover are renewed.

📋 Procedure

1. Position screwdriver as illustrated, drive into baffle plate (arrow) and lever out.
2. Remove circlip.
3. Take out bearing, remove peening indentations if necessary. [Note: The thickness of the circlip must be re-determined if the bearing or the end cover are renewed.]
4. Press on ball bearing outer race as far as stop.
5. Determine the thickest circlip that can still just be fitted.

6. Select required circlip from following table; for part numbers refer to Electronic parts catalogue.
7. Fit circlip.
8. Use a blunt punch with a ball shaped end (ball diameter 5 mm) to peen in position.
9. Install baffle plate.
10. First peen at points marked with (arrow 1).
11. Then peen at points marked with (arrows 2) at distance (a) from first position.
12. Observe position and ∅ of peening positions:
13. Use a blunt punch with a ball shaped end (ball diameter 5 mm) to peen in position.
14. Install baffle plate.
15. Peen in first peening point (arrow) at distance (d) from the centre line of the two shafts.
16. Observe position and ∅ of peening positions:
17. Peen in second and third peening points in same manner at distance (a).

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