5-speed manual gearbox 02C, four-wheel drive — Renewing bevel box output flange oil seal (bevel box removed) — VW
5-speed manual gearbox 02C, four-wheel drive — Renewing bevel box output flange oil seal (bevel box removed) on VW: 11 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Golf IV / Bora (1J)
📋 Procedure
- Remove bevel box .
- Secure bevel box in gearbox support.
- Remove hexagon nut using socket (A).
- Swing bevel box so that output flange points upwards.
- Remove output flange.
- Lever out seal using a screwdriver.
- Drive new oil seal in flush.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with sealing grease for radial oil sealG 052 128 A1.
- Install output shaft and tighten to specified torque .
- Install bevel box .
- Checking gear oil in manual gearbox with bevel box .
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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.
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