11.2.1. Removal and installation of the shock-absorber and spring

Cars with the forward drive

REMOVAL

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Mark paint the provision of the corresponding back wheel concerning a nave. It will allow to establish at assembly the balanced wheel in its former situation. Weaken bolts of fastening of a wheel at the car standing on the earth. Lift a back part of the car, put it on supports and remove a back wheel.
2. Bring sideways as a support under a back wheel the garage elevator in the place where the wheel is removed. Do not lift a back suspension bracket. On an illustration the V.A.G elevator is shown.
3. If it is necessary to remove only a spring, turn off a bolt – 2 fastenings of the shock-absorber to a beam. Completely unload a spring and take out it. For this purpose lower the elevator. If necessary ask the assistant to pull a suspension bracket down.
4. If it is also necessary to remove the shock-absorber, turn off fastening bolts
– Also take out 1 shock-absorbers at a body.

INSTALLATION

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Establish a spring so that the beginning of a spring (the shooter on an illustration) adjoined to an emphasis of the top basic ring. The top basic ring has to sit correctly in a body.
2. The beginning of a round of a spring below has to show surely to the center of the car.
3. Insert the shock-absorber and fix it below by a new bolt and a new nut the moment of 55 N • m.
4. Fix the shock-absorber to a body by new bolts the moment of 75 N • m.