SEAT Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Special tools and workshop equipment required

• ◆ VW 401 Thrust plate
• ◆ VW 402 Thrust plate
• ◆ VW 407 Press tool
• ◆ 3292/1 From assembly tool 3292

Only when cleaning or carrying out visual check the clutch must be dismantled.

On some gearboxes the clutches -K1- and -K3- may be pressed together.

Pressing -K1- off -K3-

Pressing -K1- onto -K3- => Page 37-84

• Circlip
• ◆ Different thickness
• ◆ Mark after removing and insert at same point
• Thrust plate
• ◆ Install with stepped side facing circlip
• Inner plate
• ◆ Quantity
• ◆ Before installing place plates in ATF for 15 minutes

• Outer plate
• ◆ Quantity
• Pressure plate
• ◆ Install with peened corrugated washer facing piston
• Corrugated washer
• ◆ Peened to pressure plate (item 5)
• Securing ring
• ◆ Removing and installing => Fig.1
• Piston cap
• ◆ Sealing lips are vulcanised to piston cap
• ◆ Moisten with ATF before installing
• ◆ Turn piston cap slightly when installing
• ◆ When removing and installing press down and fit securing ring (item 7)

• Spring
• ◆ Seat between piston and piston cap
• Piston
• ◆ Sealing lips are vulcanised to piston
• ◆ Moisten with ATF before installing
• ◆ Turn piston slightly when installing
• Clutch housing with turbine shaft
• ◆ Height varies according to number of inner and outer plates
• O-ring
• ◆ Always replace
• ◆ Installing =>Fig.4
• Piston ring
• ◆ Check that it is correctly located
  => Fig. 2
• ◆ Fitting => Fig. 3

→ Fig.1    Removing and installing circlip (arrow)

• ‒ Press down carefully on piston cap until the circlip an be installed.

→ Fig.2    Checking seating of piston rings

• ‒ Ensure that the ends of the piston rings are hooked together.

→ Fig.3    Fitting and hooking ends of piston ring together

• ‒ Place piston ring in groove.
• ‒ To hook ends together press sides of ring in and guide ends over one another.
• ‒ Do not twist piston ring out of groove on one side.

→ Fig.4    Installing O-ring

• ‒ Insert O-ring in the recess in the turbine shaft (arrow).