Adjusting Selector Lever Cable - Audi A8 2003 Workshop Manual

– Remove bolts -3- at support bracket for selector lever cable.
– Use removal lever -80-200- to prise ball head -1- on selector
lever cable off selector shaft lever -arrow-.
Note
-Item 2- can be disregarded.
Installing
Installation is carried out in reverse sequence; note the following:
Note
Do not bend or kink the selector lever cable.
♦
Before installing, lightly lubricate ball socket on selector lever
♦
cable with polycarbamide grease -G 052 142 A2- .
– Push selector shaft lever into position "D".
Note
In order to securely set position "D" on selector shaft lever move
the selector shaft lever on gearbox forwards as far as it will go,
into position "P". Then shift it three positions to the back (opposite
to direction of travel).
– Install subframe ⇒ Running gear, front-wheel drive and four-
wheel drive; Rep. Gr. 40 .
– Adjust selector lever cable
– Install exhaust system and perform stress-free alignment ⇒
Rep. Gr. 26 .
– Deactivate jacking mode ⇒ Running gear, front-wheel drive
and four-wheel drive; Rep. Gr. 43 ; Adaptive air suspension .
Tightening torques
Component
Support bracket to gearbox
Front cross member to body
Tunnel cross member to body
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Adjusting selector lever cable

Special tools and workshop equipment required
multitronic 01J, front-wheel drive - Edition 11.2007
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