In areas where a lot of snow falls in winter, the question of increasing the vehicle's ground clearance has long become relevant. This need persists in the summer when the vehicle is operated on poor quality dirt roads.
Necessary
- - Keys set;
- - a set of liners for support cups;
- - pipe section;
- - penetrating lubricant.
Instructions
Step 1
Drive the car into the hole. Jack up the front of the vehicle, then remove the front wheels. Place the wheel nuts in a box so they don't get lost accidentally.
Step 2
Open the hood and, using suitable keys, unscrew the fastening nuts of the support cups of the front struts, clean the seat of the support cup from the accumulated dirt.
Step 3
Dismantle the front pillars. To do this, use a suitable socket wrench to unscrew the fastening nuts. To reduce the force on the handle of the wrench, use a lever from a short piece of pipe and lubricate the threaded connections with a penetrating grease. If access to the strut bolt head is not possible, remove the brake calipers and hang them in the wheel well with pieces of thick wire. Avoid hanging the calipers on the brake hoses to avoid damaging them.
Step 4
Disconnect the brake hoses from the struts.
Step 5
Pull out the strut carefully so as not to tear the drive boots and scratch the front fender with the top cup studs. To do this, put the lower side of the rack under the body, and take the upper side out and when the top cup appears completely, pull the rack towards you. Remove the second post in the same way.
Step 6
Use a wire brush to remove road dirt from the top cups and bottom brackets. You can, of course, just give the racks to the car wash and wash them entirely. This method is more expensive, but it will also be more pleasant for you to work with clean parts.
Step 7
On the studs of the upper strut cups, screw the spacers from the set of liners to increase the ground clearance, tighten them with a wrench and put the rubber or metal rings supplied in the kit to increase the ground clearance on the installed spacers. You can use another more time-consuming option that requires replacing the studs with longer ones. It all depends on which set you can find.
Step 8
Install the A-pillars in the reverse order of removal. Install the removed brake calipers and install the front wheels. Lower the front of the machine.
Step 9
Go down into the pit and loosen the mounting bolts of the front arm bushings. The bolts must not be tight and must allow the silent blocks to rotate freely. The goal is to turn the silent blocks a little so that they are not energized when the car is on a level surface, otherwise they will tear very quickly.
Step 10
Take a ride in a car near the garage, you don't need to go far, the goal is for the wheels to take their normal position. This is due to the fact that when the wheels are lifted off the ground, the track decreases, and when you lower the car, the wheels will rest on the floor of the garage, and will not allow the springs to sink to their normal working position.
Step 11
Tighten the mounting bolts of the bushings.
Step 12
Repeat all steps for the rear suspension. The rear suspension struts are in most cases similar to the front ones. If the rear suspension is pavement, with springs, you just need to put rubber rings under the springs and repeat the operation with the silent blocks, but you will not need to leave, because the wheel track on the bridge suspension is constant.
Step 13
Be sure to do the wheel alignment.
