Removing and installing poly V-belt pulley with freewheel from alternator, 4.9 l TDI engine — VW
Removing and installing poly V-belt pulley with freewheel from alternator, 4.9 l TDI engine on VW: 10 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Phaeton (3D)
- Special tools named: torque wrench, 17 mm ring spanner
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- The thread on the alternator shaft is left-handed. To loosen the connection turn clockwise and to tighten it turn anti-clockwise.
- Loosen threaded connection by turning clockwise. Counterhold with ring spanner when doing this.
- Counterhold adapter3400(1) using 17 mm ring spanner and tighten poly V-belt pulley with freewheel by turning alternator shaft anti-clockwise using torque wrench (2).
📋 Procedure
- Remove alternator .
- Clamp alternator on bracket points in bench vice. [Note: The thread on the alternator shaft is left-handed. To loosen the connection turn clockwise and to tighten it turn anti-clockwise.]
- Loosen threaded connection by turning clockwise. Counterhold with ring spanner when doing this.
- Hold poly V-belt pulley with freewheel by hand. Turn drive shaft of alternator until poly V-belt pulley with freewheel can be removed.
- First screw poly V-belt pulley with freewheel on drive shaft of three-phase alternator by hand as far as limit stop.
- Release socket drive (1) and pull off grip (2).
- Turn torque wrench grip (2) 180° and reinsert socket drive.
- Set turning direction of torque wrench to anti-clockwise at socket drive.
- Counterhold adapter3400(1) using 17 mm ring spanner and tighten poly V-belt pulley with freewheel by turning alternator shaft anti-clockwise using torque wrench (2).
- Tighten threaded connections to torques specified in assembly overviews:
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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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