Mercedes M-Class W163

since 1997 release

Repair and operation of the car



Mercedes W163
+ Mercedes-Benz cars of a class M (W163)
+ Governing bodies and methods of safe operation
+ Current leaving and service
+ Engine
+ Cooling systems, heating and air conditioner
+ A power supply system and production of the fulfilled gases
+ Systems of electric equipment of the engine
+ Manual box of gear shifting
+ Automatic transmission
+ Transmission line
+ Brake and auxiliary systems
- Suspension bracket and steering
   + Forward suspension bracket
   - Back suspension bracket
      Removal and installation of assembly of the back bridge
      Removal, dismantling and installation of back racks
      Removal and installation of the torsion bar
      Removal and installation of the lower cross lever
      Removal and installation of the top cross lever
      Remove also installation of a longitudinal extension
   + Steering
   + Suspension bracket geometry
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment


Removal and installation of the top cross lever

Details of installation of the top cross lever of a back suspension bracket

6j — Rack-mount assembly
91 — the Top cross lever
91a — the Top spherical support
91b — Axial bolts

111 — (not to sort) the Support of the brake mechanism
L6/3 — the Left back wheel sensor
Shooters — Landing marking of bolts of fastening of the lever on a side beam of a frame


 PERFORMANCE ORDER

In total самоконтрящиеся bolts and nuts are subject to replacement without fail!

  1. Details of installation of the lower cross lever of a back suspension bracket are shown on an illustration to which all references which are found in the text belong.
  2. Remove back wheels, remove the spare wheel (except models with fastening of the last on the holder behind a door of a back and models 163.174). At the corresponding complete set remove the external holder of a spare wheel.
  3. On models 163.174 (ML 55 AMG) remove loker of protection of wheel arches.
  4. Remove the wheel sensor (L6/3, - in case of the left lever).
  5. Disconnect rack-mount assembly (6j) from a side beam of a suspension bracket (see the Section Removal, dismantling and installation of back racks).
  6. Squeeze out the top spherical support (91a) of stupichny assembly.
  7. Disconnect from a stretcher the lower cross lever (see the Section Removal, dismantling and installation of back racks).
  8. Give fixing nuts, previously having marked adjusting provisions (shooters), take axial bolts (91b) and separate the top lever (91) from a frame beam.
  9. Check a condition of rubber axial plugs and a spherical support, in case of need make replacement (see the Sections Removal and installation of the lower cross lever, replacement of the forward axial plug and Check of a condition of spherical support of a rotary fist).
  10. Installation is made upside-down, - at installation of levers assembly of the bridge has to hold strictly horizontal position. Track correctness of combination of the landing tags (arrow) put in the course of dismantle.