6-speed manual gearbox 0A2 — Removing and installing differential — VW
6-speed manual gearbox 0A2 — Removing and installing differential on VW: 10 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Passat B5 (3B)
📋 Procedure
- Remove left flange shaft, bolting puller T10037 to cover of differential (arrow).
- Remove right flange shaft, bolting puller T10037 to gearbox housing (arrow).
- Clamp flange shaft in vice with protective jaw covers. Use new retaining ring (A) to press old retaining ring out of groove in flange shaft.
- Pry out flange shaft oil seal using an assembly lever.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of new oil seal.
- Drive in new flange shaft oil seal with a drift2062, being careful not to cant seal.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with greaseG 052 128 A1.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of new oil seal.
- Drive in new flange shaft oil seal with a drift2062, being careful not to cant seal.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with greaseG 052 128 A1.
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- Removing gearbox, CC, Passat, vehicles with turbo diesel engine, four-wheel drive
- Installing gearbox, Golf, Golf Estate, front-wheel drive vehicle with petrol engine
- Installing gearbox, Golf, Golf Estate, four-wheel drive
- Installing gearbox, CC and Golf Cabriolet, vehicles with turbo diesel engine, engine lifting eyes fitted »diagonally« on engine
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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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