Audi A8 Workshop Manual page 140

Audi A6 2005 ➤ , Audi A8 2003 ➤
Servicing automatic gearbox 09E, four-wheel drive - Edition 12.2011
– Loosen bolts -arrows- for cover for front final drive in diagonal
sequence and remove bolts.
– Catch escaping gear oil using used oil collection and extrac‐
tion unit -V.A.G 1782- .
– Detach cover for front final drive together with differential.
– Place cover for front final drive together with differential on a
soft surface.
– Lever flange shaft (right-side) off differential -arrows- using
two levers.
– Drive oil seal for flange shaft out of cover for front final drive
using a drift.
– Remove bolts -arrows- and detach baffle plate.
– Remove flange shaft (left-side)
– Remove torque converter.
Caution
The self-locking centre differential can drop out of the gearbox
when the centre differential housing is removed.
– Loosen bolts -arrows- on housing for centre differential in di‐
agonal sequence and remove bolts.
– Slowly and carefully pull housing for centre differential off
gearbox.
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Rep. gr.39 - Final drive - front differential
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