Dismantling and assembling triple roller joint — VW
Dismantling and assembling triple roller joint on VW: 28 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)
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- Mark installation position of parts 1...3.
📋 Procedure
- Open clamp on shaft and push back boot.
- Drive screwdriver or similar tool into cover and lever off cover. If the cover cannot be levered off, it is recommended that a screwdriver is driven in again on the opposite side. Then lever off cover.
- Mark installation position of parts 1...3.
- Remove rubber ring (arrow) from groove.
- Hold joint body and take drive shaft out of vice.
- Hold drive shaft and joint body vertical in one hand and slowly push back joint body using other hand.
- Remove retaining ring.
- Insert drive shaft in press.
- Hold drive shaft securely and press triple roller star off drive shaft.
- Pull joint body with boot off shaft.
- Clean shaft, joint body and groove for seal.
- Slide small clamp for joint boot onto shaft.
- Slide boot onto shaft.
- Push joint body onto shaft.
- Fit triple roller star onto shaft and press on to stop.
- Insert retaining ring, ensuring that it is seated correctly.
- Fit rollers onto triple roller star according to markings.
- Slide joint body over rollers and hold.
- Press 70 grammes of drive shaft grease from repair set into triple roller joint.
- Pack 70 grammes of drive shaft grease, from repair set, into the reverse side of triple roller joint and in protective boot.
- Insert O-ring (3) from repair kit in groove of triple roller joint (4).
- Insert drive shaft in press.
- Press cover (1) into triple roller joint until retaining ring can be inserted.
- Insert retaining ring, ensuring that it is seated correctly.
- Install joint boot.
- Position triple roller joint roughly in the centre of normal travel, see distance between min. and max.
- Hold triple roller joint in this position and lift up protective boot (arrow).
- Tighten small clamp using hose clip pliersV.A.G 1275.
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