Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Connecting link with rubber bushes in place of connecting link with ball joint was introduced for Model Year '99.

→ Connecting link with ball joint

•     1 -    Connecting link with ball joint
•     2 -    Track control link
•     3 -    Self-locking hexagon nut,
• 40 Nm + further 90° turn
•     4 -    Clamp
•     5 -    Self-locking hexagon nut, 100 Nm
•     6 -    Anti-roll bar

Connecting link with rubber bush

• ‒ → Connecting link -A- for left side of vehicle

Arrow on connecting link points in direction of travel.

• ‒ Permanently installed spacer -1- at connecting link must be fitted at anti-roll bar.
• ‒ Connecting link -B- for right side of vehicle

Arrow on connecting link points in direction of travel.

Arrow faces in direction of travel.

Bonded rubber bushes can only be turned to a limited extent. The bolted joints at the suspension links are therefore not to be tightened until the vehicle is standing on the ground.

•     → 1 -    Connecting link with rubber bush
• Rubber bush with pressed-on spacer -Item A- is bolted to anti-roll bar
•     2 -    Self-locking hexagon nut,
• 40 Nm + further 90° turn
•     3 -    Hexagon bolt
•     4 -    Track control link
•     5 -    Hexagon bolt
•     6 -    Self-locking hexagon nut,
• 40 Nm + further 90° turn
•     7 -    Anti-roll bar