Renewing outer bush for track control link: VW Phaeton
Step-by-step renewing outer bush for track control link for the VW Phaeton: 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 Phaeton (3D)
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- Mark with a permanent felt tip marker, for example.
- Transfer installation depth marking from old bush to new.
- Make sure bush is not tilted when inserting it.
- Insert bush (3) as far as mark (arrow) into track control link (4).
📋 Procedure
- Remove track control link
- Mark installation depth on bush (3)(arrow). [Note: Mark with a permanent felt tip marker, for example.]
- Press bush (3) out of track control link (4).
- Transfer installation depth marking from old bush to new.
- Apply thin coat of pasteG 052 109 A2 to bush.
- Insert bush (3) into track control link (4). [Note: Make sure bush is not tilted when inserting it.]
- Insert bush (3) as far as mark (arrow) into track control link (4).
- Check installation depth of bush (1) in track control link (2).
- If dimensions (a) and (b) differ, press bush (1) further.
- Install track control link .
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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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