Gear Oil In Rear Final Drive 0BF, Filling

Gear Oil in Rear Final Drive 0BF, Filling

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Charging Device F/Haldex 2 Coup. (VAS 6291) or Charging Device for Haldex Coupling 2 (VAS 6291A)

• Adapter for Oil Filling VAS 6291/2 (VAS 6291/2) or Adapter for Oil Filling VAS 6291/3 (VAS 6291/3)

• Catch Tray

• The rear final drive must be in its installed position.

• The vehicle must horizontal.

• Overview of the gear oil plugs, refer to => [ Gear Oil Plugs on the Rear Final Drive 0BF ] ATF and Gear Oil Drain and Inspection Plugs, Rear Final Drive 0BF and 0BE Overview.

• Install and tighten the gear oil drain plug. Tightening specification => [ (Item 16) Gear Oil Drain Plug ] Rear Final Drive Overview.

• Gear oil specification: refer to the electronic parts catalog ETKA.

- Fill using the (VAS 6291).

- Raise the vehicle.

- Remove the gear oil inspection plug - arrow -.






- Disconnect the adapter - A - from the elbow - B -.






- Install the adapter - A - all the way in.

Scrape the rib on the housing - arrow - with a scraper if the adapter - A - does not fit into the threaded hole for the plug.

• Be careful not to install the adapter - A - at an angle because this can damage the thread on the plug.

- Lock the elbow - B - to the adapter - A -.

- Route the hose over the right drive axle.

• The hose must not hang down. It must come out above the right rear wheel.

- Lower the vehicle.

- Make sure the valve - arrow - is closed.






- Attach the oil container - A - to the (VAS 6291).

- Open the valve - arrow - and hold the oil container as illustrated.

The rear final drive will now be filled.

• When the rear final drive is correctly filled, oil will leak out between the adapter - A - and the final drive housing - arrow -.






- Raise the vehicle.

- If no oil leaks out of the adapter - A -, set down the oil container.

Some of the excess oil will not run back into the oil container.

- Disconnect the (VAS 6291) when the oil stops flowing back.

• The fluid level is correct when the rear final drive is filled up to the lower edge of the fluid fill hole.

- Fill the gear oil if necessary.

- Install and tighten the new gear oil inspection plug - arrow -. Tightening specification => [ (Item 22) Gear Oil Inspection Plug ] Rear Final Drive Overview.