Adjusting bevel gear: VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra
Step-by-step adjusting bevel gear for the VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra: 18 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 Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra (7M)
- Special tools named: dial gauge
📋 Procedure
- Fit 1.0 mm shim (part no. 02B 409 210 G) in small taper roller bearing outer race seat (S2 side).
- Press in outer race .
- Fit bevel gear with stub shaft with taper roller bearing.
- Install cover with large taper roller bearing outer race but without O-ring, drive shaft oil seal and without shim S1.
- Set up dial gauge (2 mm preload). Shown here with rear final drive with differential lock (sliding sleeve not installed).
- Move bevel gear with stub shaft up and down (direction of arrow).
- Read play from dial gauge and determine Stotal.
- Set up measuring tools.
- Turn bevel gear with stub shaft to stop. Set dial gauge to zero, turn back bevel gear with stub shaft and read backlash. Note reading.
- Loosen clamping sleeve locking screw and after turning bevel gear with stub shaft a further 90°, repeat complete measuring process 3 more times. Add the four results and calculate the average backlash.
- Install determined shim S2 in place of Stotal.
- Various tolerances make it possible to obtain the exact shim thickness required.
- Press outer race in again and fit bevel gear with stub shaft.
- Insert determined S1 shim.
- Different tolerances make it possible to determine the exact thickness of shim required.
- Press outer race in again.
- Fit cover.
- It must be 0.15...0.20 mm.
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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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