Position the vehicle on a lift or pit, ensuring that the front and rear wheels turn freely on one or both sides of the vehicle.
Park the vehicle securely, release the parking brake, and place the transmission lever in neutral.
Remove the front and rear driveshafts.
Install clamp A.70025 on the flexible coupling 3 of the intermediate shaft (rice. 3-14) and, turning the shaft, unscrew the nuts of the bolts securing the flexible coupling to the flange of the output shaft of the gearbox. Remove transfer case (see subsection «Transfer case») complete with intermediate shaft. Turn away nuts of fastenings of hinge of an intermediate shaft to a flange of a leading shaft of a distributing box and remove an intermediate shaft.
Installation of cardan shafts is carried out in the reverse order of removal. Before installing the intermediate shaft assembly with the transfer case, install the centering ring of the flexible coupling on the output shaft of the transmission. When installing the intermediate cardan shaft, ensure the alignment of the shafts of the gearbox and transfer case (see «Transfer box installation»).
Before installing the intermediate shaft, put 2-3 g of SHRUS-4 grease on the inner surface of the flange centering sleeve.