23.8. Lower lever of a forward suspension bracket

Removal

Unscrewing of nuts from hinged bolts of fastening of the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Tighten the emergency brake, then lift a forward part of the car and record on supports. Remove the corresponding forward wheel.
2. Unscrew screws and remove an engine mudguard from the lower part of a motor compartment.
3. Unscrew the nuts fixing a collar of the stabilizer of cross resistance to a forward part of the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket and remove a rubber pillow from the stabilizer.
4. Using the special device for compression of springs, squeeze a spring so that it departed from the top fastening. When using special device for compression of springs you watch that rounds of a spring were reliably taken, and you make compression of a spring from the opposite sides.
5. Support by a jack through wooden whetstone the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket.
6. Unscrew a nut and take tightening the bolt fixing a pin of the spherical hinge of the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket to a rotary fist. Being careful, lower the lower lever, taking a pin of the spherical hinge from a clip of a rotary fist so that it was possible to remove a cylindrical spring from a basic cup.
7. Using paint, note the provision of eccentric washers of hinged bolts of fastening of the lower lever to the lower frame. It is necessary for installation of the lower lever in a starting position for preservation of corners of disorder and a convergence of forward wheels.
8. Unscrew nuts of fastening of hinged bolts of the lower lever and take bolts and remove eccentric washers (see the drawing).
9. Take the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket from under the car.

Repair

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Clear the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket of dirt and check its state for existence of cracks, deformation or mechanical damages. Pay special attention to a condition of plugs of fastening of the lever and the spherical hinge. If plugs or the spherical hinge of the lower lever are subject to replacement, replacement needs to be made in a specialized workshop as use of a hydraulic press and special mandrels for this purpose is necessary.
2. Check a condition of a protective cover of the spherical hinge of the lower lever for existence of gaps, cracks or aging and, if necessary, replace.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Install the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket into place and insert forward and back hinged bolts with eccentric washers. Establish a forward hinged bolt from the back party of the car, and a back bolt - from the forward party of the car. Establish eccentric washers in situation in which they were before removal. Screw new nuts on hinged bolts, but do not tighten them finally.
2. Check that the lower basic plate of a spring pure, then install the top basic plate on a spring and establish a spring with the top plate into place.
3. Turn a cylindrical spring so that its lower end correctly settled down in the lower nest of a spring. Install the top basic plate of a spring under fastening and, being careful, lift the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket, at the same time at the same time level a pin of the spherical hinge with an opening of a rotary fist.
4. Check correctness of placement of a spring, then insert tightening a bolt of fastening of a pin of the spherical hinge to a rotary fist. Screw on tightening a bolt a new nut and tighten it the required moment. For prevention of corrosion fill with sealant a crack of a clip of a pin of the spherical hinge in a rotary fist.
5. Install a rubber pillow on the stabilizer of cross stability, establish it on the lower lever, then establish a collar of fastening and screw in new bolts, having tightened them the required moment.
6. Take a jack from under the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket, then remove the device for compression of springs from a cylindrical spring. Check correctness of an arrangement of the ends of a spring.
7. Establish a wheel, then lower the car on the earth and tighten bolts of fastening of a wheel the required moment.
8. Shake the car for the correct installation of the lower lever of a forward suspension bracket.
9. Check that eccentric washers of hinged bolts of fastening of the lower lever are established according to the tags put earlier and tighten nuts of fastening of hinged bolts the required moment.