Overhaul
Subframe
Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required
• Installation device (3372)
• Thrust Plate (VW 401)
• Thrust Plate (VW 402)
• Punch (VW 407)
• Assembly tool (T10214)
• Assembly tool (T10301)
• Assembly tool (T10446)
Perform The Following:
Pressing Out The Bonded Rubber Mount
- Remove the subframe. Refer to => [ Subframe without Steering Gear ] Service and Repair.
- Loosen the bolts on the insert (T10446/1) - A -.
- Attach traverse (T10446) - 3 - to subframe.
- Attach the traverse (T10446) to the subframe with the mounting pins and knurled nuts.
1. Punch (VW 407)
2. Thrust Piece (3372/1)
3. Assembly tool (T10446)
4. Tube (T10301/3)
5. Thrust Plate (VW 401)
6. Thrust Plate (VW 402)
• Make sure the insert (T10446/1) - A - fit correctly in the openings in the bonded rubber bushings.
- Tighten the bolts on the insert (T10446/1) - A -.
- Press out both bonded rubber bushings at the same time as depicted in the illustration.
• The flat side of the thrust piece (3372/1) must face the insert (T10446/1) - A - in the cross bar (T10446) otherwise the insert will get damaged.
• The tube (T10301/3) must touch the pressure plate (VW 401) and the pressure plate (VW 402).
• The rib on the tube (T10301/3) must be between the pressure plate (VW 401) and the pressure plate (VW 402).
Installing The Bonded Rubber Bushing
- Bolt both bonded rubber bushings with original bolt, cutouts - arrows - must align when doing this.
- Insert bolted bonded rubber bushings, with bolt head downward, into large diameter of tube (T10214/2).
1. Thrust Piece (VW 432)
2. Thrust piece (T10214/3) without bolts
3. Bonded Rubber Bushing
4. Tube (T10214/2)
5. Tube (T10214/1)
6. Thrust Plate (VW 401)
- Install the bonded rubber bushing - 1 - until it reaches dimension - a -.
Dimension - a - = 2 - 3 mm.
- Align tube (T10214/2) on subframe with pressed in bonded rubber bushings.
• The corners on the inner core of the bonded rubber bushing - arrows - must face away from the traverse (T10446) - 1 -.
• The corners on the inner core of the bonded rubber bushing - arrows - must lie parallel with the edge of the traverse (T10446) - 1 -.
Distance - a - must be identical at left and right to guarantee parallelism.
- Mount the subframe on the tube (T10446/2) - 5 -.
1. Punch (VW 407)
2. Thrust Piece (T10214/3)
3. Tube (T10214/2)
4. Assembly tool (T10446)
5. Tube (T10446/2)
6. Thrust Plate (VW 401)
- Install the bonded rubber bushing on the stop.
- Remove assembly tool (T10446) from subframe and check seating of the pressed in bonded rubber bushing.
• The outer diameter - 1 - of both bonded rubber bushings must project up to 2 mm beyond edge in area of opening for pendulum support.
• Cutouts of bonded rubber bushings must lie at center in opening of subframe.
• Gap - arrow - between bonded rubber bushings is permissible.
- Install subframe, refer to => [ Subframe without Steering Gear ] Service and Repair.