Contents: Removal 🠛 Installation 🠛
Removal
- Place the car on a lift and raise the front wheels.
- Disconnect the cable from the negative battery terminal.
- Using clamps Mot. 453-01, clamp the flexible pipes coming from the power steering fluid reservoir. Do not allow any fluid to leak out.
- Disconnect the connector from the injection system control unit, unscrew the 2 bolts and remove the injection system control unit.
- Raise the car.
- Remove the right front wheel and the right protective fender liner.
- Disconnect the oil supply hose and the pressure hose.
- Loosen the drive belt tension. Using a 7 mm Allen key, loosen the central tension roller fixing bolt and use a 22 mm open-end wrench to turn the tension roller (Fig. 9.19).
Fig. 9.19. Using a hex key and open-end wrench to turn the tensioner pulley (1) and loosen the tension of the power steering pump drive belt
Fig. 9.20. Location of power steering pump pulley mounting bolts
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- Remove the power steering pump drive belt.
- Remove 3 Torx 30 bolts and pulley from power steering pump.
- Remove the 3 bolts securing the pump to the bracket.
- Remove the pump.
Installation
The installation of the power steering pump is carried out in the reverse order of removal, taking into account the following recommendations:
- when installing a new pump, use the Dir. 1083 or Nauder tool to press the pump sleeve until dimension X = 40.6 mm is obtained (Fig. 9.21);
- do not reinstall a previously removed accessory drive belt;
- be sure to follow the tensioning procedure for the drive belt of the attachments;
- bleed the power steering hydraulic system.
Fig. 9.21. The place of measurement of the size (X=40.6 mm) when pressing in the bushing of the power steering pump pulley on vehicles with F engines