4.3.13. Removal and installation of a stretcher of a forward suspension bracket

Fig. 4.66. Details of a stretcher of a forward suspension bracket: A – for the all-wheel drive car; 1 – stabilizer of cross stability; 2 – lever of a suspension bracket (left); 3 – lever of a suspension bracket (right); 4 – back support of the engine; 5 – fastening element (only front-wheel car); 6 – suspension bracket stretcher; 7 – washer (only front-wheel car); 8 – laying (only front-wheel car); 9 – expansion plug (only front-wheel car)

Lift the car on the elevator and remove wheels (right and left).

Remove a bar of the stabilizer of cross stability.

Remove suspension bracket levers (right and left).

Turn off nuts and bolts of back fastening of the engine (the front-wheel car).

Fig. 4.67. Laying and expansion plugs: B – for the front-wheel car

NOTE For the front-wheel car, you watch to losing laying 5 and expansion plugs 4 which can remain on a stretcher of a suspension bracket of 1 (fig. 4.67). For the all-wheel drive car, support the transmission that connecting details were not exposed to excessive loading at removal of a stretcher of a suspension bracket of 1 (fig. 4.67).

Fig. 4.68. Removal of a stretcher

Remove a suspension bracket stretcher from a body (fig. 4.68).

Fig. 4.69. Installation of a stretcher

Establish a stretcher of a suspension bracket 1 on a body, and tighten a bolt the nominal force of an inhaling (fig. 4.69).

Moment of an inhaling of a bolt of fastening of a stretcher of a suspension bracket (a): 90 N · m.

Fig. 4.70. Installation of an element of fastening on a suspension bracket stretcher: A – front-wheel car; B – all-wheel drive car

Establish an element of fastening 2, expansion plugs and laying on a stretcher of a suspension bracket 1 if these details were removed and tighten bolts and nuts the nominal force of an inhaling (fig. 4.70).

Nuts of an element of fastening (b): 55 N · m.

Nut of back fastening of the engine (g): 45 N · m.

Fig. 4.71. Installation of levers of a suspension bracket and bar of cross stability: 1 – suspension bracket stretcher; F – forward; R – right side; L – left side

Install levers of a suspension bracket 2 (right and left) (fig. 4.71).

Establish a bar of the stabilizer of cross stability of 3 (fig. 4.71).

Tighten bolts and nuts the nominal force of an inhaling.

Bolt of fastening of the lever (c): 90 N · m.

Nut of the spherical hinge of the lever of a suspension bracket (d): 60 N · m.

Bolt of an arm of a bar of the stabilizer of cross stability (e): 23 N · m.

Establish disks (right and left) and lower the car.

Check the angles of installation of forward wheels.

Fig. 4.72. Check of a stretcher of a forward suspension bracket

Check for existence of cracks, deformation or damages (fig. 4.72).

Check laying for existence of damages (the front-wheel car.)

Check an inhaling of all bolts and nuts of fastening of a suspension bracket. Tighten the weakened bolts and nuts the nominal force of an inhaling.