Drive shaft bolts

[Chilla]

Anyone know the bolt length of the 6 bolts that secure the driveshaft to hub/gbox? Sick of rounding off or breaking the cheap ones that come with some cv gaitor kits, so gonna get me some quality.
cheers in advance

[Grun]

Chilla,
Vagcat.com (the online catalog) says...........

6............. 893407237
bolt, with multi-spline socket head
M8X48 /


BASIC GERMAN PRICELIST
part number 893407237
Partnumber Title Price
893407237 ZYL.SCHRAU 1.65 Euro

That, I would guess is an M8 diameter (multi-spline socket headed) bolt, 48mm long. (normally measured from below the head to the end of the bolt). (i.e. Not the overall length, including the head)

Mike

[gti mad man]

What you wanna know got these on the bench at the moment

[Chilla]

Thanks very much for the responses guys. All the information I need is above
Ta

[Nicola&Tony]

That's a useful photo

Just resurrecting an old thread to ask, what torque should these bolts be tightened to? A few people seem to have had problems with these this year so I want to check ours.

Tony

[Aidan]

33ftlb 45Nm

most important are the serated washers under the heads, they are 7p- each, replace them if missing, replace them anyway imho, they should be in the boot kit I reckon instead of the crap bolts that are supplied; I don't use the silver finished multispline bolts in the kits as they aren't the correct grade and I've snapped a couple just torquing them upto the correct level and had a couple break subsequently

buy genuine ones if possible, unfortunately that means buying them from Germany now, or get some good quality 10.9s from a uk supplier

[Bert2]

another reason people round them off is that do not use the correct tool to undo them and consequently round off the splines, an ordinary splined hex drive is not good enough you must use the 12 splined tool!

[CovKid]

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[toomanytoys]

https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Ge ... nts_repair

WHS^^^

And clean the holes out before trying to undo, tap the hex/spline tool into them too.....

[Nicola&Tony]

Thanks very much for all the useful info. I'm busy searching the net trying to find some high-tensile m8 spline bolts, but not having much luck so far, do they go by any other names?

Tony

[windysurfer]

How many do you need Tony.

Think I've got 6 VW ones kicking about somewhere ( will have to check)

cheers
Gaz

Just check and do have six

[Aidan]

I've today ordered 24 from Germany from classic should be here next week

[Plasticman]

And remember the ones that gti man are showing are Bolts with a nice reduced shank, the ones shown by covkid are screws ,( as they are threaded all the way) personally I prefere to use the ht bolts
mike

[Hacksawbob]

Wiki'd

[Nicola&Tony]

Just noticed that Brickwerks sell the serrated washers in packs of 12:
Serrated lock washers

Tony