Separating engine and gearbox, vehicles with automatic gearbox — VW
Separating engine and gearbox, vehicles with automatic gearbox on VW: 11 steps, engines CFNA, CFNB, CLRA, CWVA.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Polo 6C (2014–2017); platform code 614
📋 Procedure
- Remove starter Electrical system27Starter; Removing and installing starter.
- Open clamps for coolant hoses on gear oil cooler, and pull off coolant hoses.
- Unscrew upper bolts (arrows) securing gearbox to engine using e.g. 12-point hexagon flex head socket (A).
- Using insertV/175, remove the 3 torque converter nuts through opening (arrow) in gearbox.
- To do this, turn engine in direction of engine rotation using wrench T03003.
- Bolt shackle10 - 222 A /12 to gearbox.
- Attach hook10 - 222 A /2 to workshop hoistVAS 6100.
- Attach hook10 - 222 A /2 to shackle10 - 222 A /12.
- Remove remaining engine/gearbox connecting bolts 37Removing and installing gearbox; Specified torques for gearbox.
- Press gearbox off engine while simultaneously pressing torque converter out of drive plate of engine.
- Secure the torque converter against falling out.
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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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