Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Special tools and workshop equipment required

• ◆ Engine/gearbox lifter V.A.G 1383 A

• ◆ Mount T10031

Removing

• ‒ Remove spring .
• ‒ Remove wheels.
• ‒ → Separate exhaust system at clamp -arrows-.
• ‒ Remove rear section of exhaust system.

=> Engine, Mechanics; Repair Group 26

Note:

To avoid damage, decoupling element of exhaust system is never to be kinked by more than 10 °.

• ‒ → Unscrew rear heat shield and exhaust system bracket -arrows-.

• ‒ → Use paint to mark position of rear propshaft tube at final drive flange -arrows-.

•     1 -    Propshaft with vibration damper
•     2 -    Flange for propshaft

• ‒ → Unscrew rear propshaft tube with flexible coupling and vibration damper from rear final drive -arrows-.

• ‒ → Disengage handbrake cable at brake caliper.
• ‒ Pull handbrake cable out of trailing arm.

Note:

Handbrake cables need not be pulled out of trailing arm if subframe is merely to be lowered.

• ‒ → Unclip speed sensor wire from holder -arrow-.

• ‒ → Screw out bolt -1-.
• ‒ Pull speed sensor out of trailing arm.

• ‒ → Disconnect brake pipes at bolted joint -arrow- (seal pipes with plugs).

• ‒ → Screw out lower shock absorber bolt -arrow-.
• ‒ Unplug connectors and disconnect vacuum pipes.

• ‒ → Position engine/gearbox lifter V.A.G 1383 A with mount T10031 beneath rear axle -1-.

• ‒ → Insert pins -arrow- and -1- in subframe holes.

• ‒ Mark installation position of mounting bracket on body.
• ‒ → Unscrew mounting bracket from body -arrows-.

• ‒ → Screw out subframe bolts -arrows-.
• ‒ Use engine/gearbox lifter V.A.G 1383 A to slowly lower subframe.
• ‒ Set down propshaft on heat shield.

Installing

Install in reverse order, paying attention to the following:

• ‒ Tighten bolts for subframe and mounting brackets at marked installation position.
• ‒ Install springs => Page 42-62.
• ‒ Fit shock absorbers => Page 42-68.
• ‒ Fit propshaft.
• ‒ Fit propshaft.

=> 5-speed Manual Gearbox 02C Four-wheel Drive/Final Drives; Repair Group 39

=> 5/6-speed Manual Gearbox 02M Four-wheel Drive/Final Drives; Repair Group 39

• ‒ Install exhaust system and perform stress-free alignment.

=> Engine, Mechanics; Repair Group 26

• ‒ Fill and bleed brake system.

=> Brake System; Repair Group 47

Tightening torques

    1)    90°corresponds to quarter turn

    2)    Replace bolts

Perform wheel alignment after installation.