Assembly Mount, Adjusting

Special tools and workshop equipment required 

• Pry Lever :80-200  for Audi TT from MY 2015
  Fig 1: Identifying Pry Lever

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Procedure

-- Support the engine in the installation position. Refer to ENGINE, SUPPORTING IN INSTALLATION POSITION .

-- Slightly pretension the engine/transmission assembly using the Engine Support Bridge - Spindle :10-222A/11  . Do not lift.

Audi A3 from MY 2021, all excluding North America / Q2 from MY 2016/Q3 from MY 2019:

-- Remove the battery tray. Refer to BATTERY TRAY, REMOVING AND INSTALLING .

Audi A3 from MY 2021:

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-- If still installed, remove the nut -2- and free up the ground wire.

Audi A3 from MY 2021 North America/TT from MY 2015:

-- Remove the air filter housing. Refer to AIR FILTER HOUSING, REMOVING AND INSTALLING .

Audi TT from MY 2015:

-- Free up the wires -2- on the air filter housing bracket -1- using the Pry Lever :80-200  .

-- Remove the bolts -arrows- and the bracket.

Audi A3 from MY 2021, North America:

-- Free up the wire -2- on the air filter housing bracket -1- using the Pry Lever :80-200  .

-- Remove the bolts -arrows- and the bracket.

Continuation for All Vehicles:

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-- Remove and replace the bolts -arrows- for the engine mount one after the other (if this was not already done when the engine was installed).

-- Install the bolts loosely.

-- Slide the engine/transmission assembly with an extractor lever until the following dimensions are set:

• The clearance between the engine support -2- and the engine mount -1- must be at least -a- = 10 mm.
• The casting edge on the engine support must be parallel to the engine mount support arm.
• Distance of at least -a- = 10 mm can also be checked with corresponding round stock.
• Dimension -b- = dimension -b-.

-- Tighten the bolts on the engine mount.

-- Remove the bolts -arrows- for the transmission mount -1- one after the other and replace them (if this was not already done when the engine was installed).

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-- Install the bolts loosely (example illustration above).

-- Make sure that the edges of the support arm and the transmission mount are parallel on the transmission side (example illustration below).

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• Dimension -x- = dimension -x-.

-- Tighten the transmission mount bolts.

-- Install the battery tray. Refer to BATTERY TRAY, REMOVING AND INSTALLING .

-- Only remove the engine support, when the assembly mount bolts are tightened to tightening specification. Refer to ENGINE, SUPPORTING IN INSTALLATION POSITION .

Tightening Specifications

• Refer to OVERVIEW - ASSEMBLY MOUNTS 
• Ground Wire. Refer to the appropiate Wiring Diagram.