Gearbox removal & installation: Peugeot 207 MA (EP3, EP3C, EP6, EP6C, …)
Step-by-step gearbox removal & installation for the Peugeot 207 MA: 51 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for PEUGEOT — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
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- Do not disconnect the hydraulic lines
- Do not press the clutch pedal during the procedure
- Remove the starter motor but do not disconnect
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📐 30 workshop diagrams for EP3(8FS)
Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.
📋 Procedure
- Engine support:
- Wait for 15 minutes
- Disconnect the battery
- Select neutral
- Raise the vehicle
- Refit all parts in the reverse order of removal
- Remove the front wheels
- Remove both front wheel arch liners
- Remove the drive shafts
- Remove the front bumper
- Remove the air filter together with the mass airflow meter
- Remove the air inlet hose from the turbocharger
- Remove the inlet manifold
- Disconnect the resonator
- Remove the battery cover
- Bolts, right engine support:
- Remove the engine control unit
- Remove the battery box support
- Remove the battery cables
- Remove the earth cable from the gearbox
- Disconnect the gear-shift cables from the gearbox
- Use a special tool:
- Remove the gear-shift control bracket
- Remove the starter motor upper bolt
- Remove the lower cross member
- Remove the subframe together with the anti-roll bar
- Disconnect the front exhaust pipe
- Remove the clutch slave cylinder
- Note: Do not disconnect the hydraulic lines
- Note: Do not press the clutch pedal during the procedure
- Remove the pendulum support
- Remove the torque rod
- Remove the studs
- Remove the starter motor but do not disconnect
- Remove the engine/gearbox lower attaching bolts
- Fit the special tool to support the engine
- Remove the bolts from the engine wiring bracket
- Disconnect the engine wiring loom
- Remove the remaining engine/gearbox attaching bolts
- Use a hoist to support the gearbox
- Remove the gearbox support
- Remove the gearbox
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