Sunday, May 26, 2013
Replacing Ford Sierra silent blocks
There comes a time in the Ford Sierra crashes metal - rubber sleeve front lever. On how to replace it yourself, and go to our conversation. If the car is over twenty five years, not every car wash will take up its repair and, if taken, then for good money. So we are engaged in repairing its "old" car. Let's start with the fact that the lever with wear rubber steel sleeve dismantle a car. Doing this will in the following order. Unscrew the nut lever to the crossbeam suspension Rasshplintovyvaem ball joint castle nut and turn away her. With the help of a stripper squeezing out of the housing hinge knuckle. Unscrew the nut lever to the stabilizer bar and remove the front metal washer and the front rubber ring. Now you can disconnect and remove from the vehicle control arm. For further work, we need a bench vise with large locksmith. To extract from off lever rubber sleeve, anchoring shot lever in a vise, using a special auxiliary sleeve with an inner diameter greater than the diameter of the hub arm. On the sleeve set the lever is squeezed to a mandrel rubber sleeve, just came out with her. Squeezing the worn part, proceed to press fitting the new steel rubber bushings. New sleeve to lubricate wet soap, it's much easier to install it in the lever. Again, using the auxiliary sleeve and the mandrel, presses a lever for a new rubber bushing into the hole arm suspension. Lever with a new liner is inserted into the transverse beam, and dress at the end of the stabilizer. The stabilizer dress ring, the front washer and tighten the nut fastening the lever to the stabilizer. Fasten with a bolt and nut, the lever to the crossbeam. Finger ball joint arm is inserted in the steering knuckle, tighten the castle nut and shplintuem it. It happens that after tightening the castle nut ball joint, it is impossible zashplintovat. In such case, the additional effort dovorachivat nut until such time as the slot castle nut and the hole in the toe ball joint match. Omit the car and only then finally tighten the nut bolts arm to the crossbeam. Cheap and high quality parts from leading manufacturers you can buy in internet shop olimpia-auto. In our catalog of parts you can easily find the necessary spare parts, and can pick up a substitute, if genuine spare part is too costly.
