Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Special tools and workshop equipment required

• ◆ 30-505 Insertion mandrel
• ◆ 3005 Thrust plate
• ◆ 3259 Tube
• ◆ 3292 Assembly device
• ◆ VW 401 Pressure plate
• ◆ VW 402 Pressure plate
• ◆ VW 407 Press tool
• ◆ VW 412 Press tool
• ◆ VW 416 B Tubular section
• ◆ VW 519 Tubular section
• ◆ V.A.G 1331 Torque wrench
• ◆ Kukko 15-17 parting tool (commercially available)

• Wheel bearing housing
• ◆ Removing and installing
  
• ◆ Do not grease bearing seat in wheel bearing housing before pressing in wheel bearing
• Clamping sleeve
• ◆ Always replace
• ◆ Left and right identical
• ◆ Grease all round with lubricating paste G 000 650 before inserting in wheel bearing housing
• ◆ Press home in wheel bearing housing
• Speed sensor
• ◆ Pull out to remove
• ◆ Fit drive shaft before installing speed sensor
• ◆ Clean inner surface of hole before inserting speed sensor
• ◆ Press home in clamping sleeve

• Bonded rubber bush
• ◆ Replacing =>Figs.1 and3
• ◆ Always replace both halves of bush
• Wheel bearing
• ◆ Stepped design
• ◆ Installation position:
• ‒ Large ID of wheel bearing faces wheel hub
• ◆ Pressing out => Fig.4
• ◆ Pressing in => Fig.5
• Splash plate
• ◆ Bolt to wheel bearing housing
• Wheel hub
• ◆ Pressing out => Fig.6
• ◆ Pressing in => Fig.7
• ◆ Removing bearing inner race
  =>Figs. 8 and9
• Hexagon bolt, 10 Nm

→ Fig.1    Inserting assembly device in wheel bearing housing

• ‒ Position support 3292/1 on bonded rubber bush.
• ‒ Fit assembly device 3292 over support 3292/1 such that it makes contact.
• ‒ Tighten threaded stem -arrow A- as far as it will go such that both jaws of assembly device 3292 are located -arrow B- in annular groove between bonded rubber bush and wheel bearing housing.

→ Fig.2    Screwing cross piece to assembly device

• ‒ Align cross piece 3292/2 and bring fully into contact with support 3292/1 by tightening the two hexagon bolts.
• ‒ Screw in spindle of cross piece 3292/2 -arrow- until bush is extracted.

→ Fig.3    Fitting bonded rubber bush

• ‒ Insert bonded rubber bush in hole in wheel bearing housing such that both sides are at right angles.
• ‒ Attach one thrust pad 3293/3 to each bush and screw in threaded stem -arrow- as far as it will go.

→ Fig.4    Pressing wheel bearing out of wheel bearing housing

→ Fig.5    Pressing wheel bearing -A- into wheel bearing housing

• ‒ If necessary, remove corrosion and dirt from wheel bearing housing hole.
• ‒ Large ID of wheel bearing faces wheel hub.
• ‒ Press home.

→ Fig.6    Pressing wheel hub out of wheel bearing housing

→ Fig.7    Pressing in wheel hub

• ‒ Press home.

Note:

When pressing in, tubular section VW 519 may only rest on bearing inner race.

→ Fig.8    Inserting parting tool

• ‒ Insert parting tool -1- in annular groove of bearing inner race -arrow A- and pre-tension with spindle -arrow B-.

•     1 -    Parting tool, e.g. Kukko 15-17 (commercially available)

→ Fig.9    Pulling bearing inner race off wheel hub

•     1 -    Parting tool, e.g. Kukko 15-17 (commercially available)