Pinch the brake hose near the hydraulic reservoir to shut off the brake fluid supply to the wheel brakes.
Raise the car with a lift.
Remove the parking brake cables from their sheaths.
Remove the main and additional mufflers of system of release of the fulfilled gases.
Disconnect the propeller shaft from the final drive gear flange.
Disconnect brake hoses from pipelines of working brake system and remove collars of its fastening.
Lower the vehicle until the wheels touch the ground and place a mobile garage jack under the rear axle with a piece of wood.
Detach the rear axle from the middle upper mount.
Disconnect the jet rods and move them aside.
Loosen the lower shock absorber bolts.
Raise the vehicle and remove the rear suspension crossmember assembly.
Block the suspension arms and remove the cushion supports from the ends of the rear suspension cross member.
Turn away bolts of fastening of a crossbar of a back suspension bracket.
Turn away bolts of fastening of levers of a suspension bracket and remove a cross-beam of a back suspension bracket.
Check the condition of the cross member according to the dimensions shown in the figure.
Installation is carried out in the reverse order of removal, taking into account the following:
- finally tighten the bolts for fastening the cross member supports and the bolts for fastening the suspension arms only after lowering the car and loading it, distributing the load as in subsection «Detailed Specifications»;
- bleed the air from the hydraulic brakes (see section «Brake system»);
- check the geometry of the rear axle.