Subaru 1600 Service Manual page 520

2. Removal
1) Disconnect minus terminal of
battery.
2) Jack up vehicle and place safety
stands under both of front lifting
points.
3) Take out jack-up plate by re-
moving bolts.
4) After disconnecting cap of O
2
sensor, take out exhaust manifold by
removing nuts and bolts fixing it with
engine and body.
5) Remove boot protector.
6) After removing flare nuts at
center of power steering gearbox,
drain the working fluid while turning
steering wheel clockwise and counter-
clockwise.
NOTE:
a. When removing flare nuts, wrap
waste cloth around flare nuts.
b. After removing flare nuts, install
vinyl tubes onto gearbox and piping
to prevent the fluid from splashing.
A18-152
Fig. 11-148
7) Remove flare nuts of control
valve above crossmember.
STEERING SYSTEM
NOTE:
a. Flare nuts can be easily removed if
top one is removed first and the
others are removed one by one in
the downward sequence since the
rotation angle of the wrench will be
increased.
b. Remove a flare nut of which width
across flats is 14 mm (0.55 in) by
using Socket (925670000) and
Handle (925680000).
c. 00 not use wrench with its flats
deformed; otherwise flare nuts are
damaged.
A18-184
A 18-154
Fig. 11-149
8) Remove a bolt to fix both piping
and gearbox to crossmember.
11-47
9) Take out pipes from cross-
member without bending them.
NOTE:
Pay attention to keep flare portions of
pipes, flare nuts and couplings of gear-
box clean from dirt or the like.
Fig. 11-150
A18-216
10)
Loosen bolts fixing connector
to crossmember, and slide the connect-
or forward so easily as to remove flare
nuts at the connector. Then tighten
the bolts halfway.
11) Remove flare nuts at connector,
and take out pipes without bending
them.
NOTE:
Pay attention to keep flare portions
of pipes, flare nuts and screw holes of
connector clean from dirt or the like.
12) Remove nuts joined hoses to
connector.
13) Take out connector by re-
moving bolts.
14) Draw out grommets from each
pipe.