Removing and installing engine carrier: VW Phaeton 6.0 (BAN, BAP, BRN, BRP, …)
Step-by-step removing and installing engine carrier for the VW Phaeton 6.0: 14 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 Phaeton (3D)
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- Loosen nut (4) on right engine support, do not remove completely.
📋 Procedure
- Remove the starter catalytic converter for exhaust bank 1 of cylinders 1 … 3 and the starter catalytic converter for exhaust gas 2 of cylinders 4 … 6 .
- Support engine in its installation position .
- Remove the bearing bracket for the anti-roll bar on the left and right from the engine carrier Running gear, axles - front and four-wheel drive40Assembly overview-B-: Subframe, suspension links and anti-roll bar.
- Pull vacuum line (1) off left engine support.
- Undo and remove bolts (2) and remove change-over valve (3) (lines remain connected).
- Undo nut (4) from left engine support.
- Pull vacuum line (1) off right engine support.
- Undo and remove bolts (2) and remove treble horn H2 together with bracket (3).
- Loosen nut (4) on right engine support, do not remove completely.
- Unclip complete vacuum line from engine carrier.
- Undo and remove bolt (1) from right engine support (2).
- Undo and remove bolts (1) from left and right engine supports.
- Remove engine carrier together with right engine support and heat shield.
- Undo nut for fastening right engine support to engine carrier and then remove right engine support.
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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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