Contents: Removal ↓ Installation ↓
Steering knuckle parts
1. Gasket; 2. Bushing; 3. Trunnion; 4. Nut; 5. Lever; 6. Bearing; 7. Seal housing cover; 8. Thrust ring of the seal housing; 9. Fist; 10. Bolt; 11. Bearing cover; 12. Remote laying
Removal
1. Raise the front of the car.
2. Disconnect the steering rods from the knuckle.
3. Remove the brake components.
4. Remove the axle shaft.
5. Loosen the oil seal housing bolts.
6. Loosen the lever nuts and remove the conical washers (indicated by arrows).
7. Remove the upper bearing cap and spacer.
8. Remove the bearings and label them ("upper right", "lower right", etc.).
9. Remove any remaining old grease from the bearings, fork and knuckle by rinsing with solvent.
10. Check the condition of the bearings, the presence of cracks, chipping and signs of wear on the rollers. Check the condition of the bearing rings in the forks. Replace worn bearings by removing the rings by striking a brass mandrel. The rings and roller housings are replaced as a set.
Installation
1. Apply high-melting grease to the bearing races by pressing hard on the bearing so that the grease enters the race separators.
2. Apply a thin layer of grease to the guide.
3. Install a new seal.
4. Install the upper bearing into the fork, insert the lower bearing.
5. While holding the lower bearing, place the knuckle on the axle fork and install the gasket and top cover. Tighten the bolts.
6. Install the lever, conical washers, tighten the nuts. Tighten the nuts and bolts of the upper and lower bearing caps to the specified torque.
7. Check the preload in the bearings. If the torque differs from the normal value, adjust the thickness of the spacers by removing some of the spacers or installing new ones.
Attention! Increasing the thickness of the linings reduces the preload in the bearings, decreasing the thickness leads to an increase in the preload.
8. Then assembly is carried out in reverse order.