slabraider

I know this is quite an old thread but I found it and the advice helped me….to an extent. I have a 2008 Skoda Octavia VRS PD170 which I bought with a blocked DPF. Various garages had tried regenerates and DPF cleaners but that wasn’t going remove the hard baked in Sulphur or whatever the hard yellowish stuff is that I found blocking the tubes. I just wanted to update the instructions for the DPF removal as there was more steps on my car. After point 7 I needed to remove a large aluminium plate which contains the stabilising mount for the engine (13mm, 16mm and 18mm sockets) Once the engine mount plate is out, there are two aluminium castings which hold the steering rack and the inner side of the lower arms. Undo these (4x 18mm). The steering rack will now drop down and hang off the steering column. At this stage I undid the anti-roll drop links and removed the anti-roll bar completely A curved heat shield around the drive shaft needs to be removed (2x 13mm) Now you can carry on with point 8. I removed all 5 bolts for the DPF mounting which allowed me to remove the bracket as well When it comes to re-assembly, I would recommend jacking the steering rack up to roughly where it should be as lifting it back in while the lower arms and hubs are fighting you is quite hard on your own. I would also recommend not tightening any of the bolts on the lower arm castings and the plate which holds the engine mount until everything is back on as it takes a bit of messing about to get everything lined up. Comment is you need any more advice