Fastener Tightening Specifications

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Component

Fastener Size

Chain Tensioner with Tensioning Rail to Oil Pump with Balance Shaft Drive Bolt

Charge Air Pipe to Oil Pan Bolt

Cover to Oil Pump with Balance Shaft Drive Bolt ⁽³⁾

Oil Cooler to Oil Filter Bracket Bolt

Oil Filter Bracket to Cylinder Block Bolt

Oil Filter Housing to Oil Filter Bracket

Oil Intake Pipe to Oil Pump with Balance Shaft Drive Bolt

Oil Level Thermal Sensor to Oil Pan Bolt

Oil Pan Drain Plug ⁽¹⁾

Oil Pressure Switch Ground Wire Bolt

Oil Pressure Switch to Oil Filter Bracket

Oil Pump with Balance Shaft Drive to Cylinder Block Bolt ⁽¹⁾, ⁽²⁾

15 + 90° turn

Oil Pump Chain Sprocket Bolt ⁽¹⁾

20 + 90° turn

Oil Pump Cover to Oil Pump with Balance Shaft Drive Bolt

Sealing Flange to Cylinder Block Bolt

⁽¹⁾	Always replace

⁽²⁾	Note the different length of bolts, refer to Figure.

⁽³⁾	For bolt tightening clarification, refer to OIL PUMP WITH BALANCE SHAFT DRIVE ASSEMBLY OVERVIEW and see -items 6 and 8-.

Oil Pan Bolt Tightening Sequence and Specification

Fig 1: Identifying Removal/Installation Of Mounting Bolts To Transmission/Oil Pan

Courtesy of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA, INC.

-- Tighten the oil pan bolt as follows:

Tighten the oil pan to cylinder block to bolts -1 through 20- very lightly in a diagonal sequence.
Tighten the oil pan to transmission bolts -arrows- lightly.
Tighten the oil pan to cylinder block bolts -1 through 20- again, lightly in a diagonal sequence.
Tighten the oil pan to transmission bolts -arrows- to 40 Nm.
Tighten the oil pan to cylinder block bolts -1 through 20- in a diagonal sequence to 15 Nm.