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Leon Mk1

Engine: fitting
Engine: fitting
Installation is carried out in the reverse order to removal, observing the following:
  Caution
When doing any repair work, especially in the engine compartment, pay attention to the following due to the cramped conditions:
All conduits (for example for fuel, hydraulics, carbon filter, liquid cooler and cooling agent, brake fluid, low pressure) and the electric cables must be placed in such a way that they return to their original position.
Ensure sufficient clearance for all moving or hot components.
Vehicles with manual gearbox
–  Check wear to the clutch release bearing and replace if necessary.
–  Lightly grease → ETKA ( electronic parts catalogue) the clutch release bearing, release bearing guide sleeve and the input shaft teeth.
Vehicles with automatic gearbox
–  Only use bolts authorised as spare parts for fastening the torque converter to the drive plate → ETKA (electronic parts catalogue).
Continued for all vehicles
–  Check whether the dowel sleeves for centring engine/gearbox are in the cylinder block, install if necessary.
   
–  Fit intermediate plate onto sealing flange and slide onto dowel sleeves-arrows-.
–  When inserting the engine, ensure that enough clearance exists with the drive shafts.
–  Fit the engine and the engine brackets, and tighten bolts to the specified torque → Chapter.
–  Fit the drive shafts → Running gear; Rep. Gr.40
Vehicles with air conditioning/heating
–  Installing air conditioning/heating compressor:
Continued for all vehicles
–  Electrical connections and routing: → Electrical system; Rep. Gr.97
Vehicles with manual gearbox
–  Install the clutch master cylinder → Running gear; Rep. Gr.30
–  Install gearbox selector mechanism → Manual gearbox 02T; Rep. Gr.34
Vehicles with automatic gearbox
–  Check the fastening of the torque converter.
–  Replace the cables of the gearbox selector lever and adjust where necessary → Automatic gearbox 001; Rep. Gr.37
Continued for all vehicles
–  Fit the engine protection along with the air filter (Engine identification letters AUB, BBY, BBZ, BKY) → Chapter.
–  Fit the air filter housing (Engine identification letters BXW) → Chapter
–  Fill cooling system → Chapter
–  Adapt the engine control unit to the throttle control unit and the exhaust gas recirculation valve → Chapter; Functions and components: adjusting
–  In vehicles fitted with an automatic gearbox, it is also necessary to adapt the gearbox control unit → Chapter; Functions and components: adjusting
–  Carry out a test drive and interrogate fault memory, → Chapter
Tightening torques
  N10-0160
Component Nm
Bolts and nutsM610
 M820
 M1045
 M1260
Except for the following: 
Engine mounting, gearbox mounting, pendular support → Chapter
Bolts joining front exhaust pipe to exhaust manifold40 Nm

   

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