Auto Manual of VW Passat B5



VW Passat
The maintenance instruction
1. Maintenance service
2. Engines
3. Cooling system
4. Fuel system
5. Engine management
6. An exhaust system
7. Transmission
- 8. A running gear
    8.1.2. An amortisation rack
   - 8.2. A back suspension bracket
      8.2.2. Unscrewing of the top fastening of the shock-absorber
      8.2.3. Removal and shock-absorber and spring installation
      8.2.4. Removal and installation of bearings/naves of back wheels
       8.2.5. An amortisation rack of all-wheel drive cars
      8.2.6. Shock-absorber check
      8.2.7. Shock-absorber recycling
    8.3. Wheels and tyres
9. A steering
10. Brake system
11. A body
12. Heating, ventilation
13. An electric equipment



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8.2.3. Removal and shock-absorber and spring installation
THE GENERAL DATA

The information stated in given subsection, concerns front-wheel cars.

Arrangement of bolts of the top fastening of the back shock-absorber

Elements of the bottom fastening of the back shock-absorber

1 – a nut,
2 – a bolt,
3 – the shock-absorber

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. On the car standing on wheels from under the car unscrew bolts of the top fastening of the shock-absorber to a car body (fig. the Arrangement of bolts of the top fastening of the back shock-absorber see). For access improvement to bolts of fastening of the shock-absorber it is possible to raise the car slightly.
2. For unloading of a spring of a back suspension bracket, lift a back part of the car so that the wheel has been raised over the earth on 10 see Remove a back spring from support and take it from under the car. If necessary the assistant should turn a beam of a back suspension bracket downwards.
3. Unscrew a nut and take a bolt of the bottom fastening of the shock-absorber. Having moved upwards, take the bottom part of the back shock-absorber from a back beam, lower the shock-absorber and take it from under the car, fig. Elements of the bottom fastening of the back shock-absorber see.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Establish the shock-absorber into place, insert a bolt of fastening of the shock-absorber and screw on it a nut, without tightening it it is definitive.
2. Establish a spring so that extreme coils of a spring settled down on support thus, as is shown in fig. the Correct arrangement of the bottom coil of a spring in a spring nest.
3. Screw the top fastening of the shock-absorber on a car body.
4. Lower the car on the earth so that back wheels were on the earth, but access to bolts of the top fastening of the back shock-absorber was thus possible.
5. Tighten bolts of the top fastening of the back shock-absorber the moment of 45 Nanometers. Tighten a bolt and a nut of the bottom fastening of the back shock-absorber the moment of 50 Nanometers and then tighten on a corner 90 .