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Vehicles with four-wheel drive > < Front exhaust pipe and catalytic converter with attachments

Golf Mk4

Silencer with mountings
   
Silencer with mountings
1 - 40 Nm
2 - From catalytic converter
3 - Double clamp
q   Note installation position → Fig..
4 - 25 Nm
5 - Mounting
q   Note installation position → Fig..
6 - Mounting
q   With support ring.
7 - Bracket
8 - Mounting
9 - Rear silencer
q   Aligning rear silencer free of stress → Fig.
10 - Separating point
q   For repair cases.
q   Marked by three indentations on circumference of exhaust pipe
q   Exhaust pipe and rear silencer are fitted as standard as one unit. In the event of repair, exhaust pipe and rear silencer are supplied individually with a double clamp to facilitate connection.
q   Using e.g. pneumatic sabre saw -V.A.G 1523A-, cut through exhaust pipe at right angles on the separating point → Fig.
11 - 20 Nm
12 - Tunnel bridge

   
Installation position of double clamp
Procedure
–  Position double clamp approx. 5 mm away from mark A -arrow 1-.
  Note
Mark -A- is valid for vehicles with manual and automatic gearboxes.
  A26-0129
Installation position of mounting
–  Angled side on foot of mounting -arrow- points in direction of normal travel.
  A26-0128
Separating point on exhaust pipe
Special tools and workshop equipment required
t  Pneumatic sabre saw -V.A.G 1523A-
–  Separate exhaust pipe at right angles at separating point -arrow 2-.
–  Position double clamp -4- (repair solution) when installing at side markings -arrows 1 and 3-. Specified torque: 40 Nm.
  A26-0130
Align rear silencer free of stress
–  Mounting pins on exhaust pipe must run parallel to tunnel bridge (dimension -x- equal on left and right).
  A26-0131

Vehicles with four-wheel drive > < Front exhaust pipe and catalytic converter with attachments