End Cover, With Transmission Installed

End Cover, With Transmission Installed

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Engine support bridge (10-222 A)

• Pry lever (80-200)

• Triple square socket driver (3357)

• Engine and transmission jack (VAG 1383 A )

• Oil receptacle

Removing

• Rules of cleanliness for working on transmissions. Refer to => [ Clean Working Conditions ] Clean Working Conditions.

• General repair information. Refer to => [ General Repair Information ] General Repair Information.

CAUTION!
Do not run the engine with the end cover removed or without Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) filling and do not tow vehicle.

- Place the selector lever in the "P" position.

- Remove the tunnel crossmember. Refer to => [ Transmission Mount and Crossmember ] Service and Repair.





Vehicles With a Oval Connector

- Disengage the harness connector - A - in direction of - arrow - and disconnect it from transmission.





Vehicles With a Round Connector

- Disengage electrical harness connector - 1 - and disconnect it from transmission.





Continuation for All

- Remove bracket - 3 - for the selector lever cable by first removing bolts - 2 -.





- Using the pry lever (80-200), pry the selector lever cable - A - from the lever for the selector shaft - arrow -.





- Remove bolts - 2 - and remove the transmission mount - 1 - from the transmission.





- Remove bolts - arrows - and remove the end cover.





Installing

Installation is in the reverse order of removal, note the following:

• Replace sealing rings, seals and bolts for the end cover.

Vehicles With a Round Connector

- Slide a new twin lip oil seal - A - with the twin lips facing outward onto the connector at the Transmission Control Module (TCM) (J217).





Vehicles With a Oval Connector

- Slide a new twin lip oil seal - A - with the twin lips facing outward onto the connector at the Transmission Control Module (TCM) (J217).





Continuation for All

- Clean sealing surfaces on the transmission housing and end cover.

- If bushings were installed in the transmission housing or cover, they must be remounted in the same location.

- Place a new seal for the end cover - A - onto the transmission housing.





• There are metal and paper seals. The new seal must be made of the same material as the old one.

• Make sure bushings are seated properly.

- Put on end cover and make sure seal does not slip.

- Tighten new bolts - arrows - hand tight and in a diagonal sequence, and then to specifications.





- Check the installation position of the twin lip oil seal - A -:

• The twin lip oil seal must fit flush (sealing lips must not be twisted).

- Tighten bolts - 2 - of the bracket - 3 - for the selector lever cable on the transmission.





• Do not bend or kink the selector lever cable.

• Lightly grease the eyelet and ball socket of the selector lever cable with polycarbamide grease (G 052 142 A2) before installing.

- Press the selector shaft lever - A - onto the transmission completely toward the rear - arrow - until the parking lock engages.





- Check whether the selector lever is in the "P" position, then press the ball socket of the selector lever cable - 2 - carefully onto the lever for the selector shaft.





• Take care not to bend the selector shaft lever when pressing it on; support it as necessary, otherwise the selector mechanism can no longer be adjusted properly.

- Bolt transmission mount - 1 - onto the transmission - 2 -. Refer to => [ Transmission Mount and Crossmember ] Service and Repair.





- Install the tunnel crossmember. Refer to => [ Transmission Mount and Crossmember ] Service and Repair.

- Adjust the selector lever cable. Refer to => [ Selector Lever Cable Adjusting ] Adjustments.

- Install the exhaust system and align it free of tension. Refer to

- Fill with ATF. Refer to => [ ATF Changing or Filling after Repairs ] ATF Changing or Filling After Repairs.

Tightening Specifications





* 90° is a quarter turn.