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Kia Sportage
 >> Suspension bracket and steering >> Forward suspension bracket >> Removal, service and installation of rack-mount assemblages 
 Removal, service and installation of rack-mount assemblages   Removal   
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Hang out the car over the earth.   
Remove forward wheels.  
Release a nut of fastening of a bar of the stabilizer of cross-section stability to the corresponding bottom lever of a suspension bracket (see Has undressed Removal, check of a condition of components and installation of the stabilizer of cross-section stability).  
 
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 Release a nut (1) axial bolts of fastening of a plug of rack-mount assemblage to the bottom lever of a suspension bracket.  
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Take an axial bolt of a plug.  
 
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 Release coupling bolts and remove a plug (1) bottom support of rack-mount assemblage.  
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 Open a cowl and through an aperture in a mudguard of a wheel arch release three nuts of fastening of rack-mount assemblage to the basic block on a frame.  
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Take rack-mount assemblage from a wheel arch.  
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Design of rack-mount assemblage of a forward suspension bracket     
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 Clamp a rack in a vice with soft sponges and on some turns release a nut of a piston rod of the shock-absorber, - do not remove a nut definitively.  
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 Clamp the bottom basis of rack-mount assemblage in a vice with soft sponges and by means of the special adaptation compress a screw spring.  
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Turn away a nut of a piston rod and make rack dismantling.  
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 Clamp the bottom part of the shock-absorber in a vice with soft sponges and manually check up smoothness and uniformity of a piston stroke of the shock-absorber in both directions.  
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Having rocked a piston rod not less than three times, make sure of absence of signs of development of leaks.  
Visually estimate a condition of a screw spring.  
Check up on presence of damages the top cup and the bottom saddle of a spring, also estimate a condition of the top and bottom rubber insulators.  
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Operating in an order, the return to a dismantle order, establish into place components of rack-mount assemblage, - track correctness of landing and - where it is required - input in gearing of all elements.   
Compress a screw spring and freely screw a nut of a piston rod.  
Clamp rack-mount assemblage in a vice with soft sponges and tighten a nut of a piston rod with demanded effort (37  46 Nanometers).  
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Installation is made in an order, the return to an order of dismantle of components, - track observance of requirements of Specifications of the Head the Suspension bracket and a steering to efforts of a tightening of carving fixture.  
 
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In summary drive away the car in a workshop of car-care centre for check and adjustment of corners of installation of forward wheels (the Section Check and adjustment of corners of installation of forward wheels see).  
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