Removal and installation of the pendulum lever GAZ-3110
Put the parking brake on.
Install rear wheel chocks.
Loosen the front left wheel mounting bolts.
Raise and support the front of the car.
Remove the bolts and remove the wheel
Remove the cotter pin 1, unscrew the nut 2 and press the linkage 3 of the bipod from the pin of the ball joint of the pendulum lever 4.
Unscrew the two mounting bolts 5 and remove the bracket 6 with the swing arm from the car.
Disassembly
Clamp the pendulum arm by the bracket eyelets in a vise.
Remove seal 1 and bushing 2 of ball joint pin.
Assembly
Assembly of the pendulum arm is carried out in the reverse order of removal.
Tighten the pendulum lever pin nut to 40–50 Nm (4.0–5.0 kgf m).
Installation
Install the pendulum arm in the reverse order of removal. In this case, the bolts securing the lever to the side member are tightened with a torque of 50–62 Nm (5.0–6.2 kgf m).
The ball stud nut is tightened to a torque of 40–50 Nm (4.0–5.0 kgf m).
To align the nut slot with the cotter pin hole, the nut only needs to be tightened, and no more than one slot.
