Removing and installing sealing flange at drive plate end — VW
Removing and installing sealing flange at drive plate end on VW: 16 steps, engines BGH, BGJ. 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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- In the following procedures the oil seal is illustrated without the sealing flange.In case of repair the sealing flange must be renewed complete with oil seal. Use protective sleeve supplied when installing.
- Clean sealing surfaces of sealing flange and cylinder block. They must be free of oil and grease.
📋 Procedure
- Remove engine .
- Separate engine from gearbox.
- Remove drive plate .
- Remove sump upper part .
- Remove sealing flange (arrow) from cylinder block
- Remove old gasket. [Note: In the following procedures the oil seal is illustrated without the sealing flange.In case of repair the sealing flange must be renewed complete with oil seal. Use protective sleeve supplied when installing.]
- Clean sealing surfaces of sealing flange and cylinder block. They must be free of oil and grease.
- Remove oil residue from crankshaft journal using clean cloth.
- Fit new gasket (1) onto guide pins on cylinder block.
- Pull oil seal with sealing flange (A) by the outside over the sleeve T10122/1 onto pulling sleeve T10122/2.
- Separate the two fitting sleeves.
- Then set pulling sleeve T10122/2 with dry oil seal and sealing flange onto crankshaft journal.
- Bolt sealing flange to cylinder block. Specified torques: and .
- Remove upper part of sump .
- Install drive plate .
- Install engine .
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