Removing and installing inner constant velocity joint — VW
Removing and installing inner constant velocity joint on VW: 12 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: platform codes 602, 612, 614
📋 Procedure
- Remove drive shaft
- Drive off boot with drift.
- Press off inner constant velocity joint as shown.
- Press on inner constant velocity joint as shown.
- Press joint on to stop.
- Install retaining ring.
- Coat sealing surface of boot with D 454 300 A2.
- Apply continuous bead of sealant with ∅ 2…3 mm past inner edge of holes (arrow) to clean surface of cover.
- Using bolts (arrows), align new boot in relation to bolt holes.
- Drive on boot using a plastic hammer.
- Wipe off surplus sealant.
- Tightening tensioning clamps
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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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