Removing and installing inner triple roller joint — VW
Removing and installing inner triple roller joint on VW: 19 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 601, 602, 641, 642, 603, 643, 604, 644
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- Ensure that pressure does not exceed 3.0 t.
📋 Procedure
- Remove drive shaft
- Unfasten both clamps on inner joint and push back boot.
- Pull joint body off drive shaft.
- Remove retaining ring.
- Set drive shaft into press.
- Press triple roller star off drive shaft as shown.
- Pull boot off shaft.
- Clean shaft, joint body and groove for seal.
- Fit triple roller spider onto shaft as shown in illustration, and press it on as far as stop.
- Ensure that pressure does not exceed 3.0 t.
- If necessary, coat splines of drive shaft and triple roller star with lubricant paste G 052 142 A2.
- Insert retaining ring, ensuring that it is seated correctly.
- Slide joint body over rollers and hold.
- Press 105 ± 10 grammes of drive shaft grease from repair set into triple roller joint.
- Install boot for joint.
- Push small hose clip for boot onto shaft.
- Push joint boot onto shaft.
- Push joint body onto shaft.
- Tightening tensioning clamps
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