Note: To maintain vehicle stability and handling characteristics, rear shock absorbers should be replaced in pairs. Different models are designed for different types of shock absorbers - it is necessary to use shock absorbers with the appropriate characteristics.
Attention: The design of the rear suspension beam allows you to remove and install the shock absorbers only one by one, if you try to remove the shock absorbers at the same time, the rear suspension will fall!
1. Support the front wheels with wheel chocks, jack up the rear of the vehicle and support it on jack stands. Remove the corresponding rear wheel.
2. On the Station wagon models equipped with system of automatic adjustment of a road gleam, disunite a socket of electroconducting.
3. Support the appropriate rear beam trailing arm with a trolley jack to prevent accidental release of the coil spring.
4. Turn out lower, and then top bolts of fastening of the shock-absorber (see resist. illustration), and remove the shock absorber.
5. Clamp the lower shock absorber support bracket in a soft-jawed vise and swing the stem from lock to lock several times (see resist. illustration). Any irregularities in the smoothness of the stroke of the rod indicate the need to replace both shock absorbers.
6. Assess the degree of wear of the rubber-metal bushings of the shock absorber, if necessary, replace both shock absorbers.
7. Installation is done in the reverse order to the dismantling of the components. Make sure all fasteners are tightened to the correct torque.
8. Similarly replace the second shock-absorber.
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