Withdrawal
1. Fold down the rear seat.
2. Turn out three nuts of the top fastening of a back rack.
3. Remove the rear wheel.
4. Disconnect from a back rack a brake tube and the gauge of frequency of rotation of a wheel.
5. Disconnect the anti-roll bar link.
6. Turn away nuts and get bolts of fastening of a rack to a fastener of a back axis.
Warning! Be careful not to damage the rear suspension strut.
7. Get a rack from under a wing of the car.
Disassembly
1. Using J38402, -20 and -50 special tools, compress the rear suspension strut spring.
Attention! Use only a reliable tool to compress the spring.
2. Loosen the self-locking nut at the top of the damper rod.
3. Remove the strut support, coil spring, and dust cover.
Examination
1. Check the rack mount for wear or damage.
2. Check rubber parts for damage or deterioration.
3. Check the coil spring for deflection and loss of elasticity.
4. Check the shock absorber for abnormal resistance or abnormal noise (see front suspension strut).
Assembly
1. Install the lower spring seat so that its protrusions fit into the holes of the spring plate.
2. Install the dust cover on the shock absorber.
3. Using special tool J38402, -20 and -50, compress the rear suspension strut coil spring.
4. After the spring is fully compressed, install it on the shock absorber.
Attention! Align the D-hole in the upper spring seat with the flat on the damper rod.
5. Correctly position the top and bottom ends of the coil spring into the recesses and install the self-locking nut, but do not fully tighten it.
Warning! When assembling, a new self-locking nut must be used.
6. Position the spring seat mounting bolt so that the projections of the gaskets are aligned, as shown in the figure.
Attention! The identification label of the spring must be at the bottom.
7. Remove J38402, -20 and -40 spring compression tools.
8. Tighten the self-locking nut to the correct torque. Tightening torque: 40–55 Nm.
Installation
Installation is carried out in the reverse order of removal.
After installation, check the rear wheel alignment.