SEAT Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Removing clutch cover (end cover) Brief description

The cover closes the gearbox to the outside. It is retained in its seating using a retaining ring. After the retaining ring has been removed, the cover can be levered out of its seat. Cover and retaining ring must always be renewed. Never install a new cover with a hammer and never oil the centre seal or touch it with a hand! However, if this should happen, the cover is certain to leak! The gearbox must be removed for work on cover. –  Remove gearbox → Chapter. –  Mount gearbox on assembly stand → Chapter.

–  Drain oil. To gearbox manufacture date „20 September 2004“, gearboxes were constructed with 2 plugs. The second plug was then discontinued, and oil can only be drained and the level checked with plug -A-. There is a black plastic overflow tube in the hole (with an interior 8 mm nut, tightening torque: 3 Nm) is located behind the plug. Its length determines the oil level in the gearbox. –  Remove this oil pipe. –  Drain oil. –  Screw in overflow tube again hand-tight, 3 Nm.

–  Install drain plug -A- with new seal. Tightening torque: 45 Nm

–  Remove filter if necessary. Often, doubts arise as to whether the filter must be renewed or not. The notes on the oil filter change can help you in reaching this decision → Anchor.

–  Insert new filter with shoulder downwards and tighten cover to 20 Nm.

–  Following repair work, it is not necessary to change filter again when filling oil. Remove cover.

–  Remove retaining ring from cover. Cover can be levered out with a screwdriver. Install only a »new« cover → Chapter.