Front Final Drive Gear Oil, Filling

Front Final Drive Gear Oil, Filling

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Drip tray (VAG1306)

• Plug insert (3247) (8mm)

Procedure

- Drive vehicle onto a 4-column lift or over a work pit.

• The vehicle must be on a level surface.

- Place drip tray (VAG1306) underneath.

- Remove locking screw (arrow).





• Loosen locking bolt using an angled socket-head wrench, but do not use hex ball socket (3247). For improved accessibility it may be necessary to remove the heat shield and drive axle and to set them aside.

• If hex ball socket (3247) is used for loosening the bolt, it could be destroyed.

- Slowly and uniformly fill front final drive over a time period of at least 5 minutes until gear oil escapes at lower edge of oil filler hole.

• Specification. Refer to => [ Capacities ] 01VA Transmission.

• Filling time of at least 5 minutes is essential, so that the internal oil level compensation between differential and retaining area can occur.

- Screw in old locking screw (arrow).





- Perform a short test drive to warm gear oil to approx. 60 °C.

- Check front final drive oil level. Refer to => [ Front Final Drive Gear Oil, Checking ] .

• Replace locking screw with seal.

- When the oil level is correct, tighten locking bolt using hex ball socket (3247) (8 mm socket) to 30 Nm.