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Removing and installing rear flange shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear flange shaft > < Exploded view - centre differential housing - bolted propshaft
Exploded view - centre differential housing - propshaft with splines on gearbox end
Exploded view - centre differential housing - propshaft with splines on gearbox end
  Note
t  → Chapter „Repair instructions“.
t  → Chapter „Rules for cleanliness when working on the dual clutch gearbox“.
The centre differential housing can also be removed and installed with the gearbox installed in the vehicle → Chapter.
   
1 - Bolt
q   Renew
q   20 Nm +90°
2 - Bolt
q   Aluminium bolts
q   11x
q   Renew
q   Tightening torque and sequence → Fig.
3 - Housing
q   For centre differential
q   → Chapter „Removing and installing centre differential housing and centre differential“
4 - Bearing plate
q   Installation position: shoulder must engage in recess in intermediate gearbox housing
5 - Centre differential
6 - Spring
7 - Assembly sleeve
q   Does not have to be re-installed
8 - Circlip
q   For ball bearing for rear splined shaft
q   Removing and installing → Chapter „Removing and installing rear splined shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear splined shaft“
9 - Circlip
q   For rear splined shaft
q   Removing and installing → Chapter „Removing and installing rear splined shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear splined shaft“
10 - Ball bearing
q   For rear splined shaft
q   → Chapter „Removing and installing rear splined shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear splined shaft“
11 - Bolt
q   Steel bolts
q   2x
q   Renew
q   Tightening torque and sequence → Fig.
12 - Damper weight
q   Depending on version
13 - Oil seal
q   Renewing on vehicles with vibration damper → Chapter
q   Renewing on vehicles without vibration damper → Chapter
14 - Dust ring
q   Renew if removed
15 - Rear splined shaft without vibration damper
q   For correct version, refer to → Electronic parts catalogue
q   Pressing out and pressing in → Chapter „Removing and installing rear splined shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear splined shaft“
16 - Rear splined shaft with vibration damper
q   For correct version, refer to → Electronic parts catalogue
q   Pressing out and pressing in → Chapter „Removing and installing rear splined shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear splined shaft“
q   → Chapter „Pressing vibration damper onto rear splined shaft“

   
Tightening torque and sequence for centre differential housing (propshaft with splines on gearbox end)
–  Tighten bolts in 8 stages as follows:
  A34-10435
StageBoltsTightening torque/tightening angle
1.Aluminium bolts -1-8 Nm
2.Aluminium bolts -2-Screw in bolts by hand until they make contact
3.Aluminium bolts -1-Slacken bolts again and screw in by hand until they make contact
4.Aluminium bolts -3-Screw in bolts by hand until they make contact
5.Steel bolts -4-Screw in bolts by hand until they make contact
6.-1, 2, 3, 4-10 Nm in diagonal sequence
7.Steel bolts -4-15 Nm
8.-1, 2, 3, 4-Turn 90° further in diagonal sequence

   

Removing and installing rear flange shaft, oil seal and ball bearing for rear flange shaft > < Exploded view - centre differential housing - bolted propshaft