Withdrawal
Remove the brake caliper and secure it with wire to the body.
Caution: The brake hose remains connected, otherwise the brake system must be bled later.
Screw in wheel bolt and secure to wheel bolt and coil spring, see illustration.
With such a suspension, the hub will not fall after unscrewing the bolts.
Unscrew the stabilizer link from the shock absorber, while holding it with a wrench.
Loosen lower bolts -1- for suspension strut.
Clean threaded holes and bolts with a wire brush.
Loosen centering bolt -2-, while marking the position of the washers (at both sides) for their subsequent installation.
Remove the cap from the suspension strut column.
Unscrew 3 securing nuts -arrows- on suspension strut column and pull suspension strut downwards.
Attention: Do not loosen the fixing nut -1- of the helical spring.
Installation
Insert suspension strut from below and tighten with new self-locking nuts with a tightening torque of 22 Nm.
Insert the centering bolt -2- from below, observing the correct installation position of the washers (Drawing W 4034). Screw on a new self-locking nut and tighten it to 110 Nm.