Subaru Legacy 2003 Service Manual page 2611

FRONT SUSPENSION
3. Front Transverse Link
A: REMOVAL
1) Set vehicle on a lift.
2) Disconnect ground cable from battery.
3) Lift-up the vehicle and remove the wheel.
4) Disconnect stabilizer link from transverse link.
5) Remove bolt securing ball joint of transverse link
to housing.
6) Remove nut (do not remove bolt.) securing
transverse link to crossmember.
7) Remove two bolts securing bushing bracket of
transverse link to vehicle body at rear bushing loca-
tion.
8) Extract ball joint from housing.
9) Remove bolt securing transverse link to cross-
member and extract transverse link from cross-
member.
FRONT TRANSVERSE LINK
B: INSTALLATION
1) Temporarily tighten the two bolts used to secure
rear bushing of the transverse link to body.
NOTE:
These bolts should be tightened to such an extent
that they can still move back and forth in the oblong
shaped hole in the bracket (which holds the bush-
ing).
2) Install bolts used to connect transverse link to
crossmember and temporarily tighten with nut.
CAUTION:
Discard loosened self-locking nut and replace
with a new one.
3) Insert ball joint into housing.
4) Connect stabilizer link to transverse link, and
temporarily tighten bolts.
CAUTION:
Discard loosened self-locking nut and replace
FS-00068
with a new one.
5) Tighten the following points in the order shown
below when wheels are in full contact with the
ground and vehicle is at curb weight.
FS-00027
Tightening torque:
Tightening torque:
Tightening torque:
FS-00069
FS-14
(1) Transverse link and stabilizer
30 N·m (3.1 kgf-m, 22 ft-lb)
(2) Transverse link and crossmember
100 N·m (10.2 kgf-m, 74 ft-lb)
(3) Transverse link rear bushing and body
245 N·m (25 kgf-m, 181 ft-lb)
FS-00068