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Engine Speed Sensing Power Steering — Boot / Tie-rod End / Oil Pipe

N-42prose procedure

Engine speed sensing power steering — boot, tie-rod end alignment to disassembly marks, oil pipe installation.

Continued from N-41

20. Boot, boot wire, boot clamp

  1. 1
    (1) Apply grease to the inner surface of the small end of the boot.
    Line drawing of installing the boot on the steering rack and wrapping a new boot wire around the large end of the boot, twisting it and bending the twisted part toward the mounting bracket.
  2. 2
    (2) Install the boot. Wrap a new boot wire around the large end of the boot twice and then twist it 4 to 4.5 times. Bend the twisted part toward the mounting bracket.
  3. 3
    (3) Install the boot clamp on the small end of the boot.

21. Tie-rod end

  1. 1
    Align with the marks made before disassembly, and tighten the nut.
    Line drawing of the tie-rod end ball joint with its boot, shown installed on the tie rod.

22. Oil pipe

  1. 1
    (1) Secure the mounting bracket in a vise so that the oil pipe connections face upward.
    Line drawing of installing the oil pipes onto the mounting bracket secured in a vise with the oil pipe connections facing upward.
  2. 2
    (2) Install the oil pipes.
Tightening torque (oil pipe)
245 - 333N·m
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