Steering box - remove and install — VW
Steering box - remove and install on VW: 21 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 Fox (5Z)
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- Loosen the ball joint nut (1) from the track rod ball joint (2), but do not remove it yet.
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect the battery earth wire with the ignition switched off Electric system27Battery; battery - connect and disconnect.
- Unscrew the bolts (1) and remove the footwell lining (2).
- Unscrew the joint cross (arrow) bolt (1) and remove the joint cross in the (direction of the arrow) .
- Loosen the wheel bolts.
- Raise the vehicle.
- Disassemble the front wheels.
- Loosen the ball joint nut (1) from the track rod ball joint (2), but do not remove it yet.
- ⚠ Leave a few nut turns over the pin to protect the thread. — Remove the fastening ring from the auxiliary frame exhaust pipe.
- Unscrew the steering box bolts (arrows) from the auxiliary frame.
- Install the auxiliary frame.
- Lower the assembly mounting using the gearbox and engine liftV.A.G 1383 A.
- Remove the steering box backwards.
- Displace the rack until the measurement (A) is reached.
- Screw the auxiliary frame .
- Screw the steering box into the auxiliary frame (arrows).
- Screw the track rod to the steering arm.
- Install the universal joint (1) on the steering box pinion.
- Insert and tighten the new bolts (arrow).
- Connect the battery earth wire Electric system27Battery; battery - connect and disconnect.
- Install the wheels and tighten .
- Check camber adjustment .
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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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