Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Auxiliary equipment required

• ◆ Electric drill with plastic brush attachment
• ◆ Protective goggles
• ◆ Silicone sealant

=> Parts List

Removing

• ● Gearbox removed

• ‒ Remove pressure plate/drive plate => Pages 13-65.

• ‒ → Detach intermediate plate at sealing flange and dowel sleeves -arrows-.

• ‒ → Unscrew bolts -1...8-.
• ‒ Lever off rear sealing flange and remove.

Installing

Installation is carried out in the reverse order; note the following:

Note:

Place a cloth over the open part of the oil pan.

• ‒ Carefully remove residual sealant at the oil pan and bottom of sealing flange.
• ‒ Clean sealing surfaces: they must be free of oil and grease.

• ‒ → Cut off nozzle of tube at front marking (ø of nozzle approx. 3 mm).

• ‒ → Apply a thin bead of silicone sealant at the edge between the cylinder block and the oil pan -arrows-.

• ‒ → Coat the lower sealing surface at the sealing flange lightly with silicone sealant -hatched area-.

Note:

The sealing flange must be installed within 5 minutes after applying silicone sealant.

• ‒ When installing, push guide sleeve from installation kit onto crankshaft.
• ‒ Carefully push the sealing flange onto the dowel pins at the engine block.

• ‒ Tighten bolts in the specified sequence:
• ‒ → Tighten bolts -1...6-.
• ‒ Tighten bolts -7- and -8-.

• ‒ → Engage intermediate plate on sealing flange and push onto dowel sleeves -arrows-.
• ‒ Install pressure plate/drive plate => Pages 13-66.

Tightening torque