Removing and installing bearing housing (vehicles after 01.96 with freewheeling flange shaft on right) — VW

Removing and installing bearing housing (vehicles after 01.96 with freewheeling flange shaft on right)
Special tools and workshop equipment required
Drift
VW 195
Pressure plate
VW 402
Tube
VW 415 A
Press piece
VW 432
Oil seal extractor lever
VW 681
Drift sleeve
3158
Torque wrench
V.A.G 1331
3
Splitter
Kukko 17/0
3
Splitter
Kukko 17/1
Bolt
Item
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Checking gear oil with gearbox installed
Chapter
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Torque converter housing
Removing ⇒ Removing and installing differential
Chapter
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O-ring
Always renewing.
Inserting with grease.
Speedometer drive gear
Seating drive gear lugs into differential housing groove, straight face outwards.
Circlip
For securing input gear for speedometer drive gear.
Speedometer drive
Removing before removing bearing housing.
Guide bush
For speedometer drive.
Bearing housing
Bolt, 8 Nm
Stub shaft oil seal
Removing with
VW 681
.
Before installing, half-fill space between sealing lips with
sealing grease
G 052 128 A1
.
Can be renewed with gearbox installed
Chapter
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Driving in
Fig.
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Stub shaft
With circlip.
Removing and installing
Fig.
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Always renewing circlip
Fig.
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Dust plate
For stub shaft.
Always renewing.
Pressing off
Fig.
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Driving on
Fig.
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O-ring
Always renewing.
Dust plate
For flange shaft.
Always renewing.
Pressing off
Fig.
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Pressing on
Fig.
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Circlip
Flange shaft bearing
Pressing off
Fig.
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Pressing on
Fig.
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Location: High collar of bearing faces flange shaft
Item
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Flange shaft
Remove circlip on bearing.
Pressing off flange shaft bearing
Pressing on flange shaft bearing
Install circlip.
Pressing off dust plate
Always renew dust plate.
Pressing dust plate onto flange shaft
Only press new dust plate far enough on until it is flush with bead
arrow
.
Removing and installing circlip
Clamp stub shaft in vice with protective jaw covers.
Use new circlip
A
to press old circlip out of groove in stub shaft.
Removing and installing stub shaft
Remove O-ring from stub shaft.
A
Splitter
Kukko 17/0
B
Splitter
Kukko 17/1
1
Bolts M10 × 80 (qty. 2)
Screw bolts
1
evenly against splitter
B
Fit stub shaft with new circlip and O-ring and drive in with plastic hammer.
Driving on dust plate of stub shaft onto stop
Driving oil seal in onto stop with
VW 195
Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with
grease
G 052 128 A1
.