Front Suspension

NOTE: The numbers found below in parenthesis ( ), refer to that number (and that part/component) found in the illustration. (The drawings show a car fitted with the V6 engine.)

REMOVAL
1. Open the bonnet. Lift out the engine, using special power unit yoke and feet tool Nos. 83 93 977 and 83 94 769 (1), or equivalents.
2. Raise the car.
3. Undo the exhaust pipe and suspend it at the rear by means of steel wire (2).
4. Place a stand under the sub-frame.





5. Back off the two front sub-frame retaining bolts (3).
6. Remove the four retaining bolts (4) and the two retaining nuts (5) at the rear of the sub-frame.
7. Lower the sub-frame at the rear.
8. Unscrew the two nuts securing the anti-roll bar (6).
9. Remove the anti-roll bar's two retaining clamps (7).
10. Remove the anti-roll bar.





INSTALLATION
1. Lubricate the bushes with grease such as Molycote 33.
2. Position the anti-roll bar on the sub-frame.
3. Install the rubber bushes on the lefthand and righthand sides.
4. Position the retaining clamps and install the bolts without tightening them (7).
5. Install the rubber bushes and retaining nuts for the anti-roll bar (6).
Tightening torque: 10 Nm (7.4 ft. lbs.).
6. Tighten the retaining bolts for the anti-roll bar clamps.
Tightening torque: 26 Nm (19.2 ft. lbs.).
7. Raise the sub-frame at the rear and install the four retaining bolts (4) and the two retaining nuts (5). The washers on the rear retaining bolts should abut against the body.





8. Tighten the front retaining bolts (3).
Tightening torque: 115 Nm (84.9 ft. lbs.).
9. Remove the steel wire and install the exhaust pipe in place (2).
10. Lower the car to the ground and remove special tools power unit yoke (1).