Hello Guys and Girls today how to remove an engine under tray on a VW T5, and also
refit. So what you need is you need your hands obviously you need an F1 pit
crew (no you don't), you just need yourself you need two ramps well you
don't really need ramps, but what I do is I just drive it up onto these wooden
blocks which is a lot easier and probably safer than a jack. You're going to need
a 13mm socket and sprocket and you're going to need a nice brew.
'Hey careful man theres's a beverage here huh'
Right let's get started so as you can see I've driven it up into these wooden blocks just to give you a bit more
access underneath the Van, and this is the other side just nice and safe right
let's get underneath so what we've got is we've got six bolts on the under tray.
Here here here and here and in the middle you've got a little plastic clip
here I think mine's actually broken but if you need to get it off of that I
think you just squeeze it and then it will just fall out that's just an extra
bit of protection so as you can see I've already loosened these up with that 13mm
sprocket, so next thing is to actually remove the tray the front of
the tray just sits underneath the body of the front of the Van. Right let's
get it off. 'This is not some job flipping burgers at the local drive-in'
Obviously anything taking off is anti-clockwise so that's bolt number 1
Bolt number 2, Usain Bolt number 3
Bolt number 4
Bolt 5 if I'm counting counting correctly
And finally bolt number 6 yes 6 bolts in total once you've loosened them
with the 13mm sprocket then just do it
with your hands a lot quicker and then just give this little squeeze a
plastic clip at the back and the undertray should just pull backwards away
from the front and then just fall down as you can see here I'm actually lying
underneath the Van and just give it a quick push and plop there she blows. And
there is the under tray mine's got a little bit of oil in it because we had a
crankshaft oil pulley seal go which I've just had replaced, so this is underneath
the engine just to give you a quick show around just to show you what's there.
Right there's the under tray so put the 6 bolts in a little container so you
don't lose them and let's get it refitted so do whatever you're gonna do
and then obviously this is refitting it. You just slide it back underneath now
this was quite tricky because I'm filming with one hand and doing everything else
with the other hand and trying to keep the tray up in the air so the front
little clips just sit underneath the body there the chassis, so just gently
lift up but it's not very heavy so just get those little Clips underneath it
actually clip anything into anything they just sit above the chassis and then
line one of at least one of these holes up, and do that by laying directly
underneath it and then just actually seeing the thread so we can see there
that one's perfectly lined up so just while you're there just get a bolt in
there quickly and I recommend always always always use your hands to start
with because you can see this one's not quite going in so I'm obviously cross
threading it if you do that with a sprocket or spanner you're gonna do some
serious damage to that thread so always do it with your fingers to get it
started there we go to this that's a lot better so do that for all of the other
6 bolts do those by hand get them as far in as possible and then right at the
end you can just tighten them up with the sprocket so hold it up with your knee
just to stop it all falling get another bolt in somewhere else
again just do it with your fingers or you can turn that little plastic clip
just to hold it up so once you've got at least 2 lined up then all of them
should then line up.
Ooh I do like working on the motor. I think this is bolt number 3 I
think yet. It's really important to have this engine under tray on because obviously
when you're doing fast speeds anything that flicks up could hit the engine
obviously the belts are exposed so it just is a good bit of protection and
actually when you're driving it makes it a little bit quieter as well and
probably slightly better fuel consumption because it's nice and smooth
alright so we've got all the bolts in now and the front's all nicely tucked
underneath the chassis what I do now is grab this grab the socket and get all
those 6 bolts tightened up so that's looking good looking good
I'll just show you it from the back, the back of the Van well back middle
Right let's get the 13mml socket and just get all those 6 bolts nicely tightened
up don't overly over tighten them just do it
so it's you know reasonably tight you don't want to go forcing it too hard
That's 1
That's 2 as I say I like to drive up onto wooden blocks you can obviously
jack the Van up, but if you do jack the Van up make sure you put some wooden
blocks underneath the wheels as well because I just never ever trust a jack
even if you just got 2 Jacks, it's just not worth the risk!
Just go round tightening the rest of these up
I think this is the last one is it or the fifth one, not counting and
at the moment, yeah that was the fifth and there's the final bolt
and there it goes
lovely jubbly so it's all nice and solid all 6 bolts all tightened up looking good
So fairly simple job well actually not fairly simple very simple and there we
go and obviously I did stop halfway through and have a nice cup of tea and
that is the end of that so thanks for watching Guys and Girls that's the End.
I'll seeyou in the next Life.