Renewing stub shaft oil seals with bevel box removed — VW
Renewing stub shaft oil seals with bevel box removed on VW: 19 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 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 .
- Remove retaining ring (arrow A) and O-ring (arrow B) from stub shaft.
- Drive stub shaft carefully out of bevel box.
- Pull out seal for stub shaft on gearbox side.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip of new seals (arrow) with sealing grease.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of new oil seals.
- Drive in seal to stop on gearbox side.
- Drive in seal to stop on drive shaft side.
- Carefully drive the stub shaft into the bevel box with a plastic hammer while turning it so that the polygon bearings are not damaged.
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Install bevel box .
- Check gear oil in bevel box .
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