Citroen Xantia

since 1993 of release

Repair and car operation

Removal, major maintenance and installation of the bottom lever of a forward suspension bracket

The divider of spherical support and new nuts of fastening of the lever, and also fastening of racks of a bar of the stabilizer of cross-section stability be required.

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Dump pressure in hydraulic system (see. Head Uniform hydraulic system).
2. Prop up protivootkatny boots back wheels, then поддомкратьте a front of the car and establish it on props. Remove the corresponding forward wheel.
3. Weaken and partially unscrew a nut of a finger of the bottom spherical support (unscrew a nut till the end of a carving fingers for the purpose of protection of rounds by the last at hinge liberation). Liberate a sharovy finger from stupichny assembly by means of a divider of spherical support, then finally remove a nut.
4. Operating in a similar manner, partially unscrew a nut of fastening of a rack of the stabilizer of cross-section stability to the end of a bar of the stabilizer, then liberate the bar end from a rack by means of a divider of spherical support. Remove a nut.

At an otdavaniye of a nut hold the end of a finger of a rack from a provorachivaniye by means of a prutkovy key on 5.0 mm.

5. Turn out two back screws of the bottom lever. Pay attention that the most back bolt is used also for fastening of a collar of a bar of the stabilizer of cross-section stability. Take bolts and remove a stabilizer collar.

6. Give a nut of an axial bolt of fastening of the forward end of the bottom lever to a stretcher, then remove lever assembly.

Major maintenance

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Carefully clear the bottom lever and surfaces round points of its fastening, having completely removed all traces of dirt and an anticorrosive covering. Attentively examine the lever on existence of signs of deformation and other defects of a mechanical order. It is necessary to give special attention to a condition of axial plugs. Replace defective components. Track, that replaceable details according to the characteristics corresponded removed from the car. It is most correct to use firm spare parts of production of the Citroёn company.
2. Check a shaft of an axial bolt on existence of signs of wear and mechanical damages.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Get assembly of the bottom lever on the regular place and freely fill a forward axial bolt. Screw on a bolt a new nut. Do not tighten fixture at this stage.
2. Establish a collar of fastening of a bar of the stabilizer of cross-section stability, then screw two back bolts of fastening of the bottom lever. Do not forget to replace a nut. Besides do not tighten while fixture finally.
3. Before a tightening of nuts the bottom edge of the external end of the lever should be lowered approximately on 8.0 mm below a stretcher bottom.
4. Having lowered the lever in a demanded point (see the previous paragraph), tighten fixing nuts with demanded effort.
5. Connect the bottom spherical support, screw on her finger a new nut and tighten it with demanded effort.
6. Connect a rack of the stabilizer of cross-section stability to the end of its bar, then screw a new fixing nut and tighten it with demanded effort. The core of a spherical finger at a tightening of a nut can keep from a provorachivaniye by means of a prutkovy key on 5.0 mm.
7. Establish into place a wheel, then lower the car on the earth and tighten wheel nuts with demanded effort.
8. Tighten spuskny the gate of a regulator of pressure and transfer a control lever a suspension bracket to the situation "Maximum" (see. Head Uniform hydraulic system).