1. Raise and place the front of the vehicle on stands. Remove the wheel.
Warnings! Brake the vehicle with the parking brake and place wheel chocks under the rear wheels («shoes»).
Loosen and tighten the wheel bolts only with the vehicle on the ground. Bolt tightening torque 65–95 Nm (6.5–9.5 kgf·m).
2. Clean the front brace nut from dirt.
Helpful advice. To make it easier to unscrew the nut that secures the brace to the bracket, apply WD-40 to the threaded connections and wait a bit.
3. Loosen the front brace nut…
4.... and the nut of the rear bracing.
5. Turn out three bolts of fastening of an arm of an extension.
6. Be sure to count and record the number of shims from the front..
7.... and the rear ends of the stretch.
8. Finally unscrew the fastening nut and remove the extension.
9. Carefully inspect the stretch. If it is bent or there is damage to the rubber joints or aging, swelling or loss of elasticity of the rubber, replace the damaged parts.
10. If the brace bracket is damaged, replace it.
Note. Replacing the rubber-to-metal strut joints pressed into the bracket and front suspension arm requires special tools and skill. To perform this operation, we recommend contacting a service station.
Helpful advice. If, after replacing the stretch, the car began to move to the side while driving, contact a specialized workshop to diagnose the front suspension, be sure to inform the repairman that the stretch was changed.
11. Install the brace in the reverse order of removal. Adjusting washers are installed in the same quantity and on the same ends of the extension. The chamfers on their inner diameters should be directed towards the stop collar of the brace.
12. Having lowered the car to the ground, rock it strongly several times and tighten the nuts securing the extension to the arm and bracket to the appropriate torques - 160–180 N·m (16.0–18.0 kgf·m), nuts for attaching the bracket to the body - 43–53 N·m (4.3–5.3 kgf·m). After a run of 100 km, re-tighten these threaded connections to the required torque.