Friday, June 5, 2015

Change Struts On The Pontiac

Quarters the struts on your Pontiac replica.


The strut meeting on your Pontiac design wears absent after age of work, creation for a evil operate on course imperfections. The cylinder may promote a leak and fail to dampen spring oscillations, which then are transfered to remainder of the van oppose. In this condition, a interchange of struts is essential.


Instructions


Removing the Strut Assembly


1. Disconnect the brunet, contravening battery cable.


2. Loosen the trundle lugs on the tire with the strut meeting you are replacing using a lug wrench.


Tighten the 3 upper nuts or the upper nut and 2 upper mounting bolts if replacing the rear strut.14. Remove the floor jack from underneath the steering knuckle.15.



5. Remove the mounting bracket of the Anti-lock Brake Course (ABS) rotate velocity sensor attached to the strut using a wrench or ratchet and socket, whether your Pontiac representation is equipped with one. Then unplug the ABS electrical connector and act the sensor to the side.


6. Scribe a match point with liquid paper correction fluid between the strut-to-steering knuckle bracket. This Testament serve as a ride during re-installation.


7. Backing the steering knuckle with the floor jack.


8. Unscrew the strut-to-steering knuckle mounting bolts by holding the bolt with a backup wrench as you remove the stone with a wrench or ratchet and socket.


9. Unscrew the three upper strut mounting nuts using a wrench or ratchet and socket. Depending on your specific mannequin, provided you are removing a rear strut, you might compulsion to remove one upper mounting seed over the Timber sphere and two upper mounting bolts from inside the fender flourishing.


10. Remove the strut assembly off the vehicle.


Installing the Strut Assembly


11. Set the new strut assembly in place and start the upper mounting nuts by hand but do not tighten them yet. If you are replacing a rear strut, install the upper nut and 2 mounting bolts but do not tighten them yet.


12. Align the strut-to-steering knuckle bracket to the match mark and start the two mounting bolts and nuts by hand. Then hold the bolts with a backup wrench as you tighten the nuts using a wrench or ratchet and socket.


13.3. Uplift the tire with the strut you essential to transform using a floor jack and safely aid it on a jack stand4. Remove the tire.



Install the bracket of the Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) wheel speed sensor to the strut using a wrench or ratchet and socket. Then plug the ABS electrical connector, if your Pontiac model is equipped with one.


16. Mount the tire on the wheel/hub assembly and install the wheel lugs.


17.Lower the vehicle.


18. Finish tightening the wheel lugs using the lug wrench.


19. Connect the black, negative battery cable.