4-speed automatic gearbox 099, four-wheel drive — Removing and installing oil seals for front right flange shaft and front right bevel gear with stub shaft — VW

🧭 Before you start

Fits: VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra (7M)

• Opens: gearbox oil
• Renewed: flange shaft circlip, bolt

Don't miss

• Always renew flange shaft circlip.

📋 Procedure

1. Unscrew hexagon bolt (arrow) for drive shaft/wheel hub.
2. Loosen wheel bolts.
3. Raise vehicle.
4. Remove noise insulation tray.
5. Unbolt drive shaft from drive flange shaft.

6. Remove wheel.
7. Separate threaded connection (arrow) between wheel bearing housing and lower swivel joint.
8. Unscrew coupling rod from bottom anti-roll bar and fold up.
9. Press drive shaft out of wheel bearing housing.
10. Take out drive shaft.
11. Remove flange shaft with VW 771 and VW 421.
12. Always renew flange shaft circlip.
13. Clamp flange shaft in vice with protective jaw covers.
14. Use new circlip (A) to press old circlip out of groove in flange shaft.
15. Remove cover.
16. Lever oil seal out using assembly lever.
17. Drive in flange shaft oil seal up to stop.
18. Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with greaseG 052 128 A1.
19. Use a drift to drive oil seal out through recess.
20. Insert oil seal with open side pointing towards special tool.
21. Use 3319 to drive oil seal for bevel gear stub shaft up to stop into cover.
22. Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with greaseG 052 128 A1.
23. Renew O-ring (arrow) on cover.
24. Install cover with new O-ring.
25. Install flange shaft.
26. Install drive shaft.
27. Assemble threaded connection (arrow) between wheel bearing housing and lower swivel joint.
28. Fit wheel.
29. With gearbox installed, check gear oil level in final drive .
30. Install noise insulation tray.
31. Always renew bolt

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