Renewing left oil seal, rear final drive 0CQ — VW
Renewing left oil seal, rear final drive 0CQ 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 code AU1
- Opens: gearbox oil
📋 Procedure
- Remove left drive shaft Running gear, axles, steering42Drive shaft; Removing and installing drive shaft.
- Unscrew spindle from bridge of puller18/0 and srew in pin3282/34 instead.
- Bolt bridge (A) to flange shaft using two bolts M8 x 30 (arrows).
- Pull out flange shaft.
- Lever out flange shaft oil seal using oil seal extractorVW 681.
- Lightly lubricate outer diameter of the new sealing ring (1) and drive in seal with thrust piece T10049 until dimension (a) is reached without canting it.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with sealing greaseG 052 128 A1.
- Clamp flange shaft in vice with jaw protectors.
- Use new retaining ring (A) to press old retaining ring out of groove in flange shaft.
- Drive in flange shaft using plastic mallet and, if necessary, a drift.
- Install drive shaft Running gear, axles, steering42Drive shaft; Removing and installing drive shafts.
- Checking gear oil level in rear final drive .
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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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