Running gear, axles, steering — II - Removing and installing upper and lower wishbones — VW

🧭 Before you start

Fits: platform code 7DA

📋 Procedure

1. Press in until the shoulders of bush project evenly on both sides.
2. Press in until the shoulders of bush project evenly on both sides.
3. Press bush in to stop.
4. To repress, insert a bolt (A) (e.g. 10 - 203) into the bush.
5. Repress until rubber collar jumps out of wishbone.

6. Coat inner diameter of coupling rod rubber bush with lubricant, e.g. soft soap and press coupling rod off anti-roll bar.
7. Lever out rubber bush with a screwdriver as shown in illustration.
8. Press new rubber bush in.
9. Press bush out as shown in illustration.
10. Lever rubber bush out with a screwdriver.
11. Press rubber bush into coupling rod.
12. Press bush (A) in as shown in illustration.

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