Renewing seal between gearbox and bevel box with bevel box removed — VW
Renewing seal between gearbox and bevel box with bevel box removed on VW: 16 steps, engines CJXB, CJXC, CYFB.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra (7N, 2010–), VW Tiguan I (5N, 2007–2016)
📋 Procedure
- Remove bevel box .
- Remove bevel box .
- Remove bevel box .
- Remove bevel box .
- Remove bevel box .
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- Lever out seal using oil seal extractor lever T20143/2.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip of new seal (arrow) with sealing grease.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of new oil seal.
- Drive in seal to stop.
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Check gear oil in gearbox .
Other VW procedures
- Assembly overview - crankshaft · 15 torque figures
- Installing gearbox · 8 torque figures
- Adjusting differential – VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra · 10 torque figures
- Removing gearbox · 5 torque figures
- Installing bevel box – VW Golf V / Jetta · 7 torque figures
- Removing engine · 41 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft – VW Golf Cabriolet · 47 torque figures
- Adjusting valve timing – VW Passat B5 · 83 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshafts – VW Passat B6 · 39 torque figures
- Removing and installing coolant pump · 53 torque figures
Who makes these pages, and how
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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