Removing And Installing Spring Strut - Porsche 928 - WORKSHOP MANUAL 1977 Workshop Manual

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Rear Wheel Suspension, Axle Shaft
928
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REMOVING AND INSTALLING SPRING STRUT
Removing
1. Unscrew three self-locking nuts from
spring strut in luggage compartment.
2.
3.
4.
Remove wheel.
Unscrew front nut on pivot pin of lower
control arm, counterlocking and counter-
holding the rear nut with a separate
M 14 x 1.5 nut. Remove pivot.
Disconnect stabilizer bar link at control
arm.
Installing
1. Replace self-locking nuts. Check spring
strut seal, making a new permanently
elastic seal on the mounting plate 300mm
long and circular in shape with, for
example, Prestik 4 mm dia., Item No.
0593 from Bostik. Coat rubber mount on
mounting eye with Molykote U.
2. Tighten to specified torques.
3. Note installed position of lower shock
absorber.
Note
Turn lower shock absorber to correct
position with a hook wrench applied to
adjusting nut.Select direction of turning so
that stop of spring retainer remains on end
of spring. Further the adjusting nut must not
be turned against the threaded sleeve, so
that the car height adjustment is not
changed.
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Removing and Installing Spring Strut
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