Removal and installation of a drive of forward wheels

Withdrawal. Place the vehicle on a lift, apply the parking brake and perform the following operations on both sides of the vehicle:

• hang the front of the car and place it on stands;
• disconnect the shock absorber from the lower suspension arm;
• compressing the suspension spring, disconnect the ball joint from the lower arm;
• remove the wheel hub cap and unscrew the nut of the wheel hub bearings, and then the nuts securing the bearing cover of the inner joint housing;
• turn away a bolt of fastening of the right arm of a suspension bracket of the forward bridge;
• remove the outer and inner hinges from the wheel hub and from the front axle.

Installing the front wheel drive is carried out in the reverse order of removal.

When tightening the nuts of the bearings of the front wheel hubs, adjust the clearance in the bearings, as indicated in subsection «Front suspension».