Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Drive shaft
- Assembly overview - drive shaft
- Removing and installing drive shaft
- Dismantling and assembling drive shaft
- Loosening and tightening threaded connections of drive shaft
- Checking outer constant velocity joint
- Checking inner constant velocity joint
Repairing trailing arm
Special tools and workshop equipment required
Tube for wheel bearing -3345-
Assembly tool -3346-
Thrust plate -VW 402-
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Assembly overview - drive shaft
1 -
Outer constant velocity joint
Renew only as complete unit
Removing
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Installing: drive onto shaft ...
Other materials:
Changing headlights over from driving on left to driving on right, LED
headlights
If a right-hand drive vehicle is driven in a left-hand drive
country, or vice versa, the headlights must be converted. This
is necessary in order to avoid dazzling oncoming traffic with
the asymmetric low beam headlights.
Note
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Masking areas, front body
Masking areas, plenum chamber
A -
No sealant on threads or contact surfaces.
C -
No cathodic dip primer, surfacer or top coat on threads or contact
surfaces.
D -
Threads free of surfacer and top-coat pa ...
Removing and installing spring, torsion beam axle
Special tools and workshop equipment
required
Spring compressor -V.A.G 1752/1-
Spring retainer -V.A.G 1752/3A-
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