Lower Control Arm, Removing and Installing

^ Vehicle must be standing on its wheels above vehicle lift





- Remove wheel trim.
On light alloy wheels use puller in vehicle tool kit to remove trim cap
- Loosen wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle on lift.
- Remove wheel.





- Remove bracket for ABS wheel speed sensor cable.
- Extract brake fluid from reservoir.





- Disconnect brake line at points indicated.

Note: On vehicles with headlight range control, the linkage for the headlight range control must be disconnected to remove the rear axle or lower control arm.





- Remove self-locking nut and bolt mounting lower control arm to suspension strut (arrow -1-).
- Remove parking brake cable.





- Remove eccentric bolt for wheel bearing housing to lower control arm (arrow -2-).





- Remove both mounting bolts for subframe to lower control arm (arrow).

Note: Only one bolt is shown to simplify the illustration.

- Remove control arm.

Installing

WARNING:
^ Do not re-use an V fasteners that are worn or deformed in normal use.
^ Some fasteners are designed to be used only once. and are unreliable and may fail if used a second time. This includes, but is not limited to, nuts, bolts, washers, circlips and cotter pins. Always follow the recommendations in these procedures - replace these fasteners with new parts where indicated, and any other time it is deemed necessary by inspection.

CAUTION: Bonded rubber bushings can only be turned to a limited extent. The bolted connection between the wheel bearing housing to lower control arm and the connection between the shock absorber to lower control arm must only be tightened when the vehicle is standing on the ground Otherwise the bonded rubber bushings will be subjected to a torsional stress resulting in shortened service life.

- Install in reverse order of removal.
- Always replace bolts and nuts.
- Bleed brake system.
- Check wheel alignment and adjust if necessary.