Engine Restraining Cable

Manual transmission vehicles

Removal
1. Lift the vehicle.
2. Remove cable fastening on engine (1).





3. Remove cable (C) on the rear axle cross member with a commercially available 1/2 inch changeover ratchet (B) with the corresponding extension and 13 mm socket wrench insert. When doing this, hold onto each hexagon of the cable (2). The tool (B) is inserted through the slot in the sheetmetal brace.

Installation
1. Install in reverse order.
2. Use correct tightening torques. Cable to motor and cross member = 23 Nm (17 ft. lbs.).



Tiptronic Vehicles

Removal
1. Lift the vehicle.
2. Remove cable from engine.
3. Undo front sheetmetal brace (A) (2 screws on rear axle cross member).
Pull down sheetmetal brace by about 30 mm (direction arrow).
If there are already two rubber spoilers on the sheetmetal brace (as of Mod. '98), remove these spoilers (area X).
4. Undo cable on rear axle cross member at one side.





5. Undo cable (C) at other side and use an open-ended wrench to turn the hexagon of the cable.

Installation
1. Install in reverse order.
Tightening torques: Cable to motor and cross member = 23 Nm (17 ft. lbs.).
2. Fit the two rubber spoilers to the sheetmetal brace if necessary.
Fasten front sheetmetal brace (2 screws on rear axle cross member).
Tightening torque = 46 Nm (34 ft. lbs.).