Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Special tools and workshop equipment required

• ◆ Mount VW 441
• ◆ Thrust pad VW 447 H
• ◆ Engine/gearbox lifter V.A.G 1383 A
• ◆ 3 - Kukko 15/1 and 17/1 parting tools

Replacement of two-piece bonded rubber bushes involves unfastening and lowering subframe.

Removing

• ‒ → Screw out bolt -arrow- at noise insulation.

• ‒ → Disengage rubber mount at front exhaust pipe -arrow-.
• ‒ Screw out bolts -1- for subframe.
• ‒ Only slacken off subframe bolts -3- such that bushes become accessible.

• ‒ → Apply parting tool and pull out upper half of bush.

• ‒ Insert thrust pad VW 447 h.
• ‒ → Use mount VW 441 and engine/gearbox lifter V.A.G 1383 A to press subframe upwards until bottom half of bush drops out.

Installing

• ‒ Place both halves of bush in position at subframe.
• ‒ → Installation position of bush halves

•     A -    Upper half of bush without collar: ribs facing body
•     B -    Lower half of bush: collar facing bolt head -arrow-

Notes:

• ◆ Press in using acid-free assembly lubricant G 294 421 A1
  =>General notes, Page 40-33.
• ◆ Never use grease.

• ‒ → Use engine/gearbox lifter V.A.G 1383 A to press new bushes into subframe.
• ‒ Install subframe .