Renewing left drive flange oil seal: VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra
Step-by-step renewing left drive flange oil seal for the VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra: 10 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 Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra (7M)
📋 Procedure
- Unbolt drive shaft and tie up.
- Pull drive flange with output shaft out of sun wheel by turning bolt (A) (M 10 x 100). When doing this, place a chisel or spacer (B) under drive flange.
- Lever oil seal out using assembly lever.
- Drive in new oil seal to stop.
- Clamp output shaft with drive flange in vice using protective jaw covers.
- Use new circlip (A) to press old circlip out of groove in output shaft.
- Drive in output shaft with drive flange using plastic headed hammer.
- Renew drive flange/drive shaft seal (pull off protective foil and glue seal into joint).
- Reconnect drive shaft flanges.
- Check rear final drive oil .
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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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