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Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Removing and installing power-assisted steering box (left-hand drive) > < Steering box (left-hand drive)
Running gear, Front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive
Steering box (left-hand drive)
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  • Hexagon bolt, 68 Nm
  • Boot
    • ◆ Check for cracks and abrasion
  • Eccentric bolt
    • ◆ Torx T50
    • ◆ Turn clockwise to slacken off
    • ◆ Turn anti-clockwise to tension
  • Steering column
  • Self-locking hexagon nut, 30 Nm
    • ◆ Always replace
 
A48-0170
  • Combi bolt, 7 Nm
    • ◆ For adjusting toe-in curve
  • Bolt
  • Self-locking nut
    • ◆ Always replace
    • ◆ 42 Nm for steel wheel bearing housing
    • ◆ 50 Nm for aluminium wheel bearing housing
  • Return hose
  • Expansion hose
  • Cheese-head bolt, 13 Nm
    • ◆ Screw plug of steering centring
    • => Fig.1
  • Power-assisted steering box with track rods
  • Banjo bolt, 40 Nm
    • ◆ With integrated non-return valve
  • Sealing ring, 14 *20
    • ◆ Always replace
 
A48-0170
  • Banjo bolt, 50 Nm
  • Sealing ring, 16 *22
    • ◆ Always replace
  • Hexagon bolt, 35 Nm
  • Steering damper
    • ◆ Only for:
    • ‒ 6-cyl. models
    • ‒ As of MY` 98 all 4-cyl. models as of 132 kW
  • Bushing
  • Rubber bush
    • ◆ Two-piece
  • Hexagon nut, 10 Nm
    • ◆ Provide support at hexagon of steering damper piston rod when slackening off and tightening
 
N48-0255

→ Fig.1    Screw plug of steering centring

  •     1 -    Screw plug of steering centring, 13 Nm
  •     2 -    Tapped hole in steering box

Removing and installing power-assisted steering box (left-hand drive) > < Steering box (left-hand drive)