Gearbox removal & installation: Peugeot 307 motor (TU3JP, TU5JP4)
Step-by-step gearbox removal & installation for the Peugeot 307 motor (TU3JP/TU5JP4): 42 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
Fits: platform code 1.4
- Opens: brake fluid, gearbox oil
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Installation is in the reverse order of removal
- Gearbox support:
- Drain the gearbox oil
- Drain the brake fluid reservoir
- Note: Disconnect the reservoir and place it aside
- Remove the windscreen wiper arms
- Remove the air deflector
- Remove the cover
- Remove the reinforcement brace
- Remove the air filter together with the air duct and resonance duct
- Remove the front right splash guard
- Remove the battery with tray
- Remove the front bumper
- Remove the cross member
- Remove the radiator and fan
- Remove the heater unit
- Remove the lower cross member
- Remove the catalytic converter
- Remove the ancillary drive belt
- Vehicles with air conditioning:
- Disconnect the air-conditioning compressor and place it aside
- All vehicles:
- Remove the drive shafts
- Remove the clutch slave cylinder
- Remove the reinforcement brace
- Remove the gearbox operating linkage
- Remove the cable guide
- Disconnect the heater hoses
- Disconnect the earth cable
- Disconnect all the engine wiring
- Disconnect the electrical wiring from the gearbox
- Fit the special tool to support the engine
- Remove the right-hand engine support
- Remove the gearbox support
- Remove the engine in a forward direction
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- Citroen 1997 timing belt replacement
- Peugeot except 1997 timing belt replacement
- TU1JP TU3JP auto-tens 2001->
- Peugeot 307_TU3JP TU3JP cylinder head removal & torque
- Peugeot 407 and EW10J4/EW7J4 timing belt replacement
- Peugeot 306 DW8/DW8B timing belt replacement
- 406 XUD9 turbo
- Peugeot EP6CDTX timing chain replacement
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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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