- Before servicing the vehicle, refer to the precautions in the beginning
of this section.
- Remove or disconnect the following:
- Negative battery cable
- Axle nut
- Sway bar bracket
- Lower control arm-to-rear housing bolt and nut
- Trailing link assembly-to-rear housing bolt and nut
- Halfshaft-to-differential roll pin
- Halfshaft from the differential
- Axleshaft from the hub using puller 92707000
To install:
- Install or connect the following:
- Axleshaft into the hub
- Axleshaft into place using installer 922431000 and adapter 927390000
- New axle nut and temporarily tighten the nut
- Align the axleshaft-to-differential roll pin holes and slide the axleshaft
onto the splines. Install a new roll pin.
- Trailing link assembly to the rear housing
- Trailing link bolt and new nut and tighten to 94 ft. lbs. (127 Nm)
- Lower control arm to the rear housing
- Bolt and new nut and torque them to 116 ft. lbs. (157 Nm)
- Sway bar bracket
- Torque the new axle nut to 152 ft. lbs. (206 Nm).
- Wheel
- Negative battery cable
