Skoda OCTAVIA Workshop Manual page 53

OCTAVIA
Edition 02.01
S00.5103.60.20
Front Suspension
K Separating suspension strut from wheel
bearing housing
- Insert special tool -3424- as shown, and
spread wheel bearing housing apart.
- Take out suspension strut.
Installing
Remove any corrosion present in the thread/
spline of the outer joint.
- Insert suspension strut together with wheel
bearing housing and attach to suspension
strut dome.
- Attach coupling rod, if fitted, to suspension
strut.
- Moisten splines of wheel hub with oil.
- Insert outer joint as far as possible into the
splines of the wheel hub.
- Attach steering joint and wishbone with new
bolts to old impression.
- Attach brake caliper housing to wheel bear-
ing housing.
Note:
Tighten FN-3 brakes to wheel bearing housing
with a torque of 125 Nm.
- Insert cable of ABS wheel speed sensor into
fixtures.
- Plug in connector of ABS wheel speed sen-
sor.
- Moisten contact surface of twelve-point
nut and also splines and thread of outer
joint with oil and screw on twelve-point
nut as far as possible.
- Pull outer joint sufficiently far into the wheel
hub until outer joint is making contact in the
wheel bearing.
- Fit on wheel.
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