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Removing and installing clutch cover for Octavia Mk2

Removing the clutch cover
Removing the clutch cover
Special tools and workshop equipment required
t  Catch pan
  Note
t  The cover is held in its position by a circlip. After the circlip is removed, the cover can be lifted from its position.
t  Clutch cover and circlip must always be replaced → Electronic Catalogue of Original Parts.
   
t  Never install new covers using a hammer and never oil the middle gasket or touch it with the hand!
The gearbox must be removed before carrying out work on the cover.
–  Remove the gearbox:
   Vehicles with front-wheel-drive:
Octavia II → Chapter.
Superb II → Chapter
   Vehicles with four-wheel drive:
Octavia II → Chapter.
Superb II → Chapter, or → Chapter
Yeti → Chapter
–  Attach gearbox to assembly stand → Chapter.
On vehicles Octavia II
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Gearbox with drain plug -arrow A- and check screw -arrow B- installed up to 12.04.
The gearboxes installed as of 01.05 have only one check screw -arrow B-.
Continued for all vehicles
Oil can only be drained via check screw -arrow B-.
–  Unscrew check screw -arrow B- close to the pendulum support.
  Note
A plastic overflow tube with an 8 mm hexagon socket and a tightening torque of 3 Nm is located behind this screw. The length of the overflow tube determines the oil level in the gearbox, when replacing the tube assign via part number → Electronic Catalogue of Original Parts
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–  Remove overflow tube.
Approx. 5.0 ltr of oil flows out. Furthermore, the catch pan remains under the gearbox.
–  Screw in overflow tube and tighten to tightening torque → Chapter.
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–  Unscrew oil filter housing -1- from gearbox.
–  Before removing, the oil filter housing must be slightly inclined.
So that the oil can flow out of the oil filter back into the gearbox.
–  Always replace O-ring -2- → Electronic Catalogue of Original Parts.
–  Remove filter -3-.
–  Moisten new O-ring -2- with gear oil.
When changing the gear oil, the gearbox oil filter must not always be replaced. Therefore comply with the instructions, when the gearbox oil filter must be replaced and when not → Chapter.
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–  Moisten the O-ring in the intake collar -arrow- of the new oil filter with gear oil.
–  Insert new oil filter with the intake collar -arrow- downwards and tighten the filter housing to tightening torque → Chapter.
–  After the repair, top up with oil → Chapter but do not change the filter again.
–  Remove circlip from cover.
The cover can be lifted out with a screwdriver.
Only install »new« cover → Chapter.
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