Audi A8 Workshop Manual page 142

Audi A6 2005 ➤ , Audi A8 2003 ➤
Servicing automatic gearbox 09E, four-wheel drive - Edition 12.2011
– Remove magnet -arrow- from gearbox housing.
– Remove securing bolt for side shaft using 17 mm socket with
approx. 350 mm extension.
– Counterhold with hexagon wrench -T40124- and 27 mm open-
end spanner -item 1-.
– Pull out side shaft.
– Loosen bolts -1 ... 18- for torque converter bellhousing in di‐
agonal sequence and remove bolts.
– Take off torque converter bellhousing and protective tube for
side shaft.
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– Remove conical washer -1- from end of pinion shaft -2-.
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Rep. gr.39 - Final drive - front differential