Removing
1. Mark the position of the front wheels on the hubs with paint. This will allow the assembly to set the balanced wheel in its original position.
2. Loosen the wheel bolts. In this case, the car must be on the ground.
3. Install the front of the car on the goats and remove the front wheels.
4. Unscrew nut 2 and remove ball joint pin clamping bolt (see illustration). Pull the control arm down and remove the ball joint pin from the steering knuckle.
8.4 Unscrew nut 2 and remove the ball joint stud retaining bolt
5. Loosen the nuts 3 of both bolts securing the transverse arm to the carrier frame (see illustration 7.13). It is not necessary to completely unscrew the nuts.
6. Unscrew the two bolts 4 securing the ball joint to the transverse arm by unscrewing the nuts and disconnect the ball joint (see illustration 7.13).
Installation
7. Fasten the new ball joint to the transverse arm by screwing 4 new nuts onto the bolts, which are tightened to 60 Nm (see illustration 7.13).
8. Make sure that there is a sealing plastic gasket A on the finger of the ball joint of the transverse lever (see illustration 7.13). Replace the gasket if necessary.
9. Get a finger of a spherical support in a hole on a rotary fist. Insert the clamping bolt and secure it with a new nut using 80 Nm.
10. Reinstall the anti-roll bar and secure it. Do not final tighten the stabilizer mounting bolts.
11. Establish forward wheels according to the marks put at removal. Before doing this, lubricate the centering saddle of the rim on the hub, as well as the cone of the wheel bolts with a thin layer of bearing grease. Do not lubricate the threads of the wheel bolts.
12. Screw in wheel bolts and lower the car.
13. Tighten the wheel bolts in a cross pattern to 90 Nm.
14. Press several times on the front of the car so that the suspension sags and levels out.
15. Tighten nuts 3 securing the transverse arm to the carrier frame (see illustration 7.13). The tightening torque of the nuts for SCENIC vehicles is 100 Nm, for all other models it is 90 Nm.
16. Tighten the stabilizer bar mounting bolts. Tightening torques:
- SCENIC vehicles = 20 Nm;
- other models = 35 Nm.