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Assembling Gear Housing

Assembling gear housing
1. Fit gear housing, attach front gear set and screw on front transmission case cover.
Tightening torque: 23 Nm (17 ft. lbs.)

Assembling gearshift mechanism
1. Drive in bearing sleeves (no. 20 in overview) with special tool pressure piece 9648/1.
2. Drive in shaft seal (no. 19 in overview) with special tool pressure piece 9649/1. Before doing this, fill the space between the dust and sealing lips with grease (e.g. Liqui Moly).

Note!
^ Always replace shaft seal.

3. Insert shift lever from the outside with rubber washer (nos. 16 and 20 in overview).
4. Push shift catch with roller (nos. 17 and 18 in overview) onto shift lever from the inside.
5. Push on circlip (no. 15 in overview).
6. Insert locking pin, compression spring and screw plug (nos. 14, 13 and 12 in overview).
Tightening torque: 20 Nm (15 ft. lbs.)

Installing outer bearing race
1. Insert snap rings (no. 3 or 6 in overview) into the groove of the outer bearing race.
2. Drive in outer bearing race (no. 4 or 7 in overview) with special tool pressure piece P 254 b or special tool pressure piece P 254 a and special tool pull-in tool and extractor P 254 from the outside.
3. Insert snap rings (no. 2 or 5 in overview).

Installing ball sleeves
1. Drive in ball sleeves (nos. 9 and 10 in overview) with special tool pressure piece 9648. Use short side (installation depth: 0.6 mm) of the special tool.
2. Drive in ball sleeves (nos. 8 and 11 in overview) with special tool pressure piece 9648. Use long side (installation depth: 1.4 mm) of the special tool.

Installing screw plug
1. Screw in screw plug (no. 1 in overview).
Tightening torque: 30 Nm (22 ft. lbs.)