1980 SKODA 120 LS steering

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Pressing-in Beoring Cups Using
MP 6-130 Jig
Fig.6.5/5 -
Instolling Seoling Ring
Using
MP 6-131 Jig 23-
Fit the disk broke bock plote
on the
steering knuckle ond fosten it by bolting down
the broke brocket. Use spring woshers to lock
the bolts. Drive home the wheel hub
on the
steering knuckle with light tops ond use o tube
to top home the beoring cone.
24. Fit the greose-pocked
cone of the outer
beoring on the steering knuckie, locote
the
shim on the beoring, ond tighten the nut with
o torque of 1.5 kpnr (15
Nm) while rototing the
wheel hub.
25. Top
the wheel hub ond the broke disk
with o mollet ond rotote
the wheel hub to bed
in the beorings. Bock off the nut
through obout
-180o
ond retighten it with o torque of obout 5 Nm
(0.5 kpm) while rototing the hub. Then bock off
the nut to the neorest cotter pin
slot (ot
the
most through 30"), ond lock it in this position
by inserting the cotter pin.
26. Check whether the wheel hub rototes
freely br-rt without ony noticeoble
cleoronce in
the beorings, ond secure the nut with the cotter
pin.
Fittirrg Steering Knuckles ond Wheel Hub
into Wishbones
27. Hoving thus ossembled the wheel, instoll
ii into the lower
wishbone, fit
o shim between
tl-re wishbone reor eye ond the resilient bush in
the king pin socket,
threod in the eccentric pin,
cind screw down the nut without tightening it.
28. Press
the wheel ogoinst tlre
upper wish-
borre ond connect it with it
by topping home
the wishbone pin
from the reor side
of the
oxle,
i. e., from the side of the shorter port
of the
king pin
socket. Slip the MP 6-108 pilot
pin
on
the wishbone pin
threod to focilitote threoding
of the pin
through the hole in the wishbone.
Tighten slightly the connection with the costel-
loted nut.
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Fig. 6.517 -
MP 6--108 Pilot Pin for
Upper
Wishbone Pin lnstollotion
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Using
o meosuring rod
on which the dis-
tonces con be morked with o line, meosure the
distonce between the gouge plotes
when tunned
forwords ond reorwords (the plotes
must be
opproximotely horizontol). By turning both
steering rods, odiust the rood wheels so
thot tlre
distonce between the plotes
behind the oxle is
3 mm lorger thon the distonce in front
of the
oxle, ond lock the steering rods in
this position
by meons of nuts.
Fig. 6.5/10 -
Meosuring Front Wheel Toe-in
36. Rotote
the steering screw to check the
correctness of the steering geor
reossembly.
With the wheels in the right-hond ond left-
hond lock position
when the steering knuckle
obuts ogoinst the boss on the king pir-r
socket,
both extreme positions
in the steering
box
must be resilient,
without ony hord impocts.
lf this is
not the cose ond there is o hord
impoct, correct the odiustment by shortening
one steering nod ond lengthening
the other one.
37. Hoving odiusted the comber ongle
ond the
toe-in, retighten
o) the nuts of the eccentric pins
ond lock them
with cotter pins
b) the nuts of the upper wishbones ond lock
them with cotter pins
c) the bolts of the upper wishbone brocket
d) the nuts of the upper wishbone pins
ond
lock them by tightening the thin nuts
e) the nuts of the lower wishbones ond lock
them by tightening the thin nuts
f ) the
nuts of the boll
ioint pins (boll pins).
For tightening torques see Chopter 1.8.
38. Recheck the wheel comber, remove the
gouge, ond screw down loosely nuts ond wosh-
ers on to the protruding
ends of the lower
wish-
bone pins
in the following order: thin nut, spring
wosher, two ploin
woshers, onother spring
wosher, ond o thin nut. Fitting
Anti-roll Bor
39. Slip rubber
bushes on the centre port
of
the onti-rroll bor (close
behind the oblique bend)
ond f it on them the holder. After
hoving
threoded the other rubber bushes
on the
ends
of the onti-roll bor, instoll it in the brockets
on
the lower
wishbones, ond lock it in position
by
clomping the rubber bush by onother holder.
Secure the bolt of the holder with o spring
wosher.
Reinstolling Shock Absorbers ond Completing
Front Axle Reossembly
40. Using the spring instoller releose
the rood
spring ond then remove the instoller. Fit the
shock obsorber holder to the shock obsorber
eye ond connect them with o bolt with o costel-
loted nut. Lock the nut
with o cotter pin.
Threod the shock obsorber through the lower
wishbone ond the coil spning ond fosten it
with
bolts ond spring woshers.
41. Fill the wheel hub cop with
the recom-
mended greose
cnd drive it home
in the hub.
The greose will penetrote
into the beoring ond
lubricote it. Use the
MP 6-125 drift to ovoid
domoging the cop.
42. Screw down o greose
nipple on the bot-
tom beoring of both
king pins
ond lubricote the
enti,re oxle with the recommended greose.
Fig. 6.5/11- Driving-on Wheel Hub Cop Using
MP 6-125 Drift
6.6 STEERING KNUCKLE The steering knuckle is o unit formed by the
swivel pin,
the broke bock plote
brocket ond
guord, speciol self-lubricoting bushes, ond the
spocing tube. The right-hond ond left-hond
steering knuckle
con be identified bythe greose
nipple or nipple hole which must foce forwords.
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5. Turning force
of box and column only. The
maximum permitted
turning force of the box and
column only (drag
link
attached to steering box
but allowed to slide freely
across idler) is 1.2kg
2.5lbs when test is carried out as in (2).
lf the force
is excessive, lubricate
universal joints
and check
thatthe drag link assembly is free to move. Repeat
test. lf still excessive remove
the steering box,
which can be removed
with the track rod still
attached.
TIME ALLOWANCE 5 mins.
6. Turning force to rotate
Steering Box input
shaft. With some form
of coupling (coupling from
'S'
type Steering Box) test the force required to
rotate the shaft; maximum prmitted
torque0.1 6kg
1.16ft lbs.
lf using an arm and spring balance as
shown the maximum force required
can be
calculated bv
160
arm length
in crn
arm length
in inches
These tests should be carried out with the
worm in the central position.
The initial force will
be 0.25 kg %lb greater
than the average pull-
force. lf excessive, remove
input shaft top bearing
cap and adjust the
bearing to give
0.OO to
0.05mm preload.
Shim Part No. 11O-509650
Steel O.3mm
1 10-59O90O Paoer
O.2mm
1 10-590902 Paper
O.7mm
Refit the shims and gaskets
and retaining cap,
fit the rubber sealing ring
dipped in oil and f it the
thin dust cover. lf the dust cover seems strained,
install a paper
gasket
between the cap and dust
cover. Part No. 1 1O-5909O0.
Retest for torque
and check rocker
shaft end
float which should be between
O.4 and O.5mm. lf
excessive and unable to adjust by the adjusting
bolt, replace steering box after contacting
the
Service Department.
Reassemble car and check the maxtmum
permitted force at the
spoke is 2.4kg 4.5lbs.
Check that the wheel
and indicator switch is
ce ntra lised.
Rocker Shaft Nut Torque
100Nm (71
lb ft).
TIME ALLOWANCE
7O mins. (inctudes
cost of additional shims)
7. Other points
which can adversely
affect the
turning force of the
Steering mechanism:
a) excessive tension
of the ball joints.
b) Workshop
Manual 7.5.5. excessive tenston
of the drag link
arms. The force required to
move the arm should be approximately 2kg or e.g.
wrth length
of arm
6 inches
max.
permitted force
equals 1.16 x 12
6
= 2.32lbs
DUST
COVER
4.6lbs when applied to the inboard
end of the
threaded portion.
TIME ALLOWANCE -
Off Vehicte 1O mins.
lf problems
are experienced
with wheel
vibration on the front
axle it is necessary to check
the amount of weight applied to one half of the
wheel rim which should not exceed
50 grams.
You are reminded
that check A1, kingpin
adjustment, is required
to be carried ogt at each of
the six and 12,0OO mile services.
1.16 x12
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OF ARM
118 2KG
{4.6lbs)

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5. Ploce
the steering
box with its bottom
boll
beoring resting on the MP 7-102 jig
ond press
the steering screw
with both beorings into the
iig. Extroct the
bottom beoring using
the MP
6-111 king pin
socket remover
ond push
the
steening screw with the top beoring oert of the
steering box. Support the beoring by the Mp
7-102 iig crnd
press
it out.
7.3 REASSEMBLING STEERING BOX
1. Press the dust cup with its seoling
ring
into the steering
box with the pressed-in
bush
ofter hoving thorouchly
cleorred the box. Now
pf oce the box on the MP 7-102
iig oncl
press-in
the bottom boll beorinct
using tlrei pressing
mandrel MP 7-103.
2. Fit the lower beoring
cop seoled
off with
o poper
gcsket
ond seoling compound, slip
lpring woshers
on to the bolts,
ond tighten the
bolts with o torque os per
Chopter t.6. f it the
wosher on the steering screw
with its deflec-
tion focing
the screw threod ond press
the
top beoring on the screw
using the Mp Z-103
pressing mondrel.
3. Then ploce
ogoin the steering box on the
MP7-102 iig ond
press
into it ond into the bot-
tom beoring the steering
screw with the pnessed-
-on top boll beoring,
using ogoin
the Mp7-103
pressing mondrel. For further ossembly, use the
vice ond the dummy brocket.
Fig. 7.311 -
Pressing-in Bottom
Beoring
on MP 7-102
Jig (support
plote)
Using
MP 7-103 Piressinq
Mondrel 4.
Meosure the height of the beoring pro-
truding from the steering box ond odiust it by
fitting shims interspoced with poper goskets
cooted with o seoling
compound.
Fosten down
the cop by tightening the bolts. Check the
steering screw for free rototion
ond the obsence
of ploy.
The beoring should be without o cleor-
once or there hos
to be o prestress
of up to
0.07 mm.
5. Remove the bolts of the cop, slip the rub-
ber seoling ring dipped in oil on to the shoft,
ond fit the dust cup on the cop. lnstoll spring
woshers on the bolts. Should the cup be over-
stroined due to the toleronce
of the recess for
the seoling ring or the ring itself
, instoll
o poper
gosket under it os under tlre ccrp.
6. Locote the steering nut on the screw fol-
lowecl by the rocker shoft with pin, spring,
spring pin, ond the licl gosket
cooted with
o seoling compound, ond fit the lid with bush
in position to close the steering
box. Instoll
spring woshers under the bolts orrd tighten the
bolts with o torque os per
Chopter 1.8. Screw
the set screw into the lid ond rnove
the steer-
ing geor
so thot the drop orrn is swivelled
through obout one holf of its trovel from the one
or the other extreme lock position.
Witlr the
drop ornr in this position,
screw down the set
screw os for os it will go
ond then bock it off
through obout 95 to '120'.
This will provide
for
on odequote cleoronce of the steering geor.
[.ock the set screw in position
with the re-
spective nut.
7. Drive the key on to the rocker shoft cone,
fit the drop orm ond hold it down lightly with
the nut. Clomp the drop orm in o vice, tighten
fully the nut (for
the tightening torque see
Chopter 1.8), ond secure tlre nut with o cotter
pi n.
8. Clomp ogoin the steering box by meons of
the dummy brocket ond moke sure
thot the dnop
orm con swivel from one extreme lock position
to the other. A certoin
resistonce should olwoys
be present,
but if the resistonce is too greot,
decreose it by o slight slockening of the set
screw in the lid. The
rototing resistonce of the
shaft should not exceed 20 Nm (O.2
kpm). Refer to
page 117/118 for testing
procedure.
9. Set the ossembled steering box in its fit-
ting position
(inclined
by obout 40o) ond pour
in oil through the hole in the bbx lid (cover)
till the oil level reoches the bottom edge of the
filling hole. Then
screw down the topered plug.
7.4 RELAY (TDLER)
LEVER
For its instollotion (ond
removing in reverse
order) ond ony pertinent porticulors
see the
Chopter 6.5, porogrophs
2 ond 3.
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if necessory, the driving dog of the di-
rection indicotor switch -
see Chopter 13.17.
Refit the steering wheel so thot its spokes
ore horizontol, lock it in position
with the nut
(for tightening torque, see
Chopter 1.8), ond
bolt down the spoke shroud.
7.8 STEERING WHEEL SHAFT AND SHAFT
BEARING
The steering wheel (column) shoft is built
up
of two ports
with the beoring in the uPPer port.
Usuolly, it is not necessory to disconnect the
two ports
of the shoft or to remove the beoring
ond steering lock. lt
con be removed from the
cor os o unit.
Removol 1. Remove the steering wheel -
see Chop-
ter 7.7. 2. Remove the screws on the lower port
of
the shoft cowling ond pull
the cowling off.After
removing two bolts, detoch the cluster switch
on the shoft from the upper port
of the shoft
cowling. 3. Remove two front screws of the upper
Port
of the cowling ond remove the cowling.
4. Disconnect the leods
from the switches
ond the switch box.
5. From under the cor, remove the bolt of the
coupling connecting the steering
column shoft
to the steering box ond detoch the dust boot
from the floor. Remove the
bolts of the shoft
beoring (from
under the shoft)
ond the bolts of
the steering lock (from
the front) fostening the
shoft to the body, ond pull
out the shoft.
Ref itting To ref it the steering column shoft
in the cor,
reverse the removing procedure. While reinstol-
ling the steering wheel (Chopter
7.7), do not
forget to check the direction indicotor switch
for correct function.
Use ploin
ond spring woshers under the bolts
of the steering lock
brocket. Reinstoll the shoft
beoring using spocing tubes, rubber bushes, ond
ploin woshers, ond secure the bolt of
the coup-
ling, connecting the steering
column shoft with
the steering box, with
o self-locking nut (for
tightening torque, see
Chopter 1.8).
To Disconnect Shofts
Remove the bolt
of the cross-pin
ioint con-
nection.
Connecting of Shofts
Fit o fostening sleeve on the tube
with the
shoft, dip the ring in oil ond slip
it on to the shoft end with
its wedge-shoped port
toword
the beoring, instoll the spring
ond the
ioint
socket of
the shoft bottom port.
Tighten
the
connection with the bolt with self-locking
nut
(tightening torque os per
Chopter 1.8).
The sleeve must be f irst built up if
the shoft
is refitted for the first time. Locote
both holves
of the sleeve on the tube ond fosten
them
lightly together by bending the tob of one holf
of ttre sleeve over the
other. The
sleeve must
on no occount clomp the tube tightly.
Bottom Port of Steering
Column Shoft
The shoft is provided
with cross-pin
ioints
ond connot be dismontled (token
oport). Before
fitting the shoft dust boot, smeor
it with
oil to
focilitote its slipping over the pcrrts
of the joint.
For this purpose,
it is clso odvisoble to wrop
the joint
in o plostic
foil or to moke o sleeve
with o pilot
cone.
Top Port of Steering Column
Shoft -
Beoring
Removol 1. l-ift owoy the fostening sleeve
ond check
whether the shoft rototes
freely in the tube. lf
it is not the cose, unlock the steering lock ond
press out the shoft proceedirrg
from the side
of its splined
end.
2. lf necessory, remove
the circlip of the shoft
ond lift owoy the beoring. The other beoring
hos to be driven out by topping it corefully
through the cut-outs in
the tube to ovoid domog-
ing it. 3. Remove the brocket with the steering
lock
- see Chopter 7.9.
Ref itting
1. Slip tlre beoring pocked
with greose
on to
the upper port
of the shoft, then the ring with
its wedge-shoped port
focing the beoring, ond
lock both ports
in position
with the circlip.
Press the shoft into the tube ond press-in
the
beoring (ogoin pocked
with greose)
from the
other end.
2. lnstoll the brocket with the steering lock -
see Chopter 7.9.
Shoft Beorings They hove to be thoroughly lubricoted
first,
since ofter their reossembly with the shoft od-
ditionol lubricotion is not possible.
lf there is
ony doubt concerning the greose
pocking,
re-
move the circlip f
rom the inner port
of the
beoring, toke the beoring oport, cleon it, ond
reossemble it ofter hoving pocked
it with the
recommended greose,
i. e., brond NH2 of Cze-
choslovok provenience
or one of the bronds
specif ied in Chopter 7.5, porogroph
3.
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Hose
clips ore formed
either by metol strips
or lengths
of wire. When
tightening the wire clips, toke core not to
domoge the rubber of the hoses.
To Fosten Pipes ond
Hoses
A correct winding of the strip is importont
to ensure o self-locking clomping of the strip
clips -
see Fig. 11.411.
Fig.11.Al1- Diogrom showing
the threoding
of
the clip strip through
the clip closp ond
the
direction of rototion of
the tightening cotter
pin -
the diogrom hos generol
opplicobility
1 -
Strip clip,2 -
Closp, 3 -
Cotter pin
The moin pipeline
routed under the cor f loor
consists of front ond reor pipes.
They ore em-
bedded in o chonnel moulded in the floor
boords ond rest on on insuloting (polysterene)
podding. From below, they ore protected
by
o guord,
the copscrews of which ore locked
in
position by spring woshers.
Use pipe
holders (yokes) to fosten the pipe-
line to the floor. In
the front
ond reor port
of
the cor, tighten
the pipes
over the insulotion
lrod ond insert
spring ond ploin
woshers under
the nuts.
Do not use insulotion pods
for bends
forming the tronsition from
the front
ond reor
lower flot ports.
Use spring woshers under
the
heods of copscrews.
Before instolling the pipes, prepore
ouxiliory
yokes (or use lengths of wires ottoched to the
provisionolly screwed-in copscrews of the pipe-
line guord) to liold the pipes
in the moulded
chonnel in
the floor before
the finol fostening
of their guord.
The woter line runs
under the cor together
with other lines, pull-rods,
etc. For their mutuol
ref otive orrongement see Chopter 12.7. Removol
To moke the underbody occessible for hond-
ling the pipes,
ploce
the cor over o floor pit
or
on o romp. The minimum required cleoronce is
obout 650 mnr.
1. Remo.re the guords
of the pipes
ond the
fuel tonk, lift owoy the spore wheel, ond loosen
the yokes
holding the pipes
to the floor.
2. Remove droin screws to droin the coolont
from the pipes -
see the illustrotion in Chop-
ter 15.'13.
3. Remove one hose clip in the middle
of the
cor to disconnect
the pipes
(ottention -
the
remoining coolont will f low out), ond dis-
ossemble the line.
4. Disconnect the pipe
ends from the hoses,
ond detoch the pipes
from the floor or other
ports of the cor.
5. Pull out the reor pipes
possing
them core-
fully oround the vorious cor ports.
6. Pull out the front pipes.
Turn
the front
wheels into their left lock position,
disconnect
the steering linkoge from the steering
reloy
lever ond the steering knuckle orm of the
right-
hond wheel, ond push
the linkoge ogoinst the
oxle body. While removing the pipes,
rotote the
left-hond pipe clockwise (when
viewing the cor
front end), ond the right-hond pipe
onticlock-
wise.
Reinstollotion Reverse the dismontling procedure
when re-
instolling the woter line. While connecting the
steering linkoge, poy
ottention to the condition
of boll pin
seoling cups (fit
new cups if the old
ore domoged). Fill in the recommended
coolont
ond bleed the cooling system.
11.5 COOLANT TEMPERATURE CONTROL
Throughf low Thermostot
This thermostot shuts off the inlet of the
coolont into the rodiotor
during the engine
heoting-up period. lt is mounted on the engine
- see Chopter 2.3, por.
30.
The thermostot operotes within the following
volues:
it begins to open ot 80+2"C
it is fully open ot 90+4oC
its lift ot full opening
11 mm
When closed, it
is permitted
to let poss
o nroximum
of 0.5 litres
of coolont per
minute,
ond it must not be closed by o bock pressure
of 0.16 MPo (1.6
kg/cm2).
When removing the thermostot by rototing
tlre rivet in the volve disk, breok owoy sedi-
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Dissssembly
ond
Reossembly of Pedols
This is usuolly not necessory. The pedols
con
be disossembled ofter removing the oxiol screw
in the pedol
pin
ond slipping off the return
spring. Do not remove the switches if it is not
obsolutely necessory -
see odiustment. On re-
ossembly, lubricote
the pedol
bush with lubri-
coting greose
of the some brond os used for the
steering linkoge -
see Chopter 7.5, por.3.
Pedol Free Trovel
Adiustment
Adjust the free
trovel of pedols
ossembled
with moster cylinders so thot the pedol piston
rod hos o
cleoronce of 0.5
to 1mm
when beoring
ogoinst the piston
heods of the
moster cylin-
ders. The free trovel of the pedol pod
should be
from 3 to 5 mm. lt
con be odiusted by rototing
the eccentric pin
on the pedol
brocket -
see
Fi9.12.111.
For the odjustment of the broke pedol
with
broke booster ond/or levelling of the broke
pedol with the
clutch pedol,
see Chopter 9.6 -
Ad justment.
Adiustment of Switches The switches con be
moved in
the ellipticol
holes of the brocket ofter loosening the fosten-
ing copscrews with ploin
woshers under their
heods. A pocking piece
should be slipped
under
the switch of the broke pedol
trovel worning
light ond the powl
of the switch pin
should be
held down under the fostening copscrew.
Ad just
the stop-light switch
so thot it
switches on the stop lights ot o pedol
trovel
of 10 to 15 mm meosured on the centre of the
pedol pod.
Adiust the pedol
trovel signolling switch so
thot the pushed-in
side push-button
pin
is
re,ecsed ot o pedol
trovel of 100 to 110 mm
mecsured on
the centre of the pedol
pod.
Press
the push
button into
the switch ofter hoving
completed the
odiustment.
12.2 ACCELERATOR PEDAL AND CABLE
The occelerotor pedol
forms o unit with its
self-lubricoting beoring ond the lever.
lt is
bolted to the f
loor tunnel. A coble possing
through the tunnel is ottoched to the pedol
lever ond the reloy
lever on the engine by
meons of clomps- The coble is protected
by
o Bowden tubing.
Pedol Removing ond Refitting
1. Loosen the clomp holding the coble on the
engine-mounted reloy lever. 2.
Remove the copscrews holding
down the
becrring with the pedol,
depress lightly the
pedol, ond lift it out of the f loor
tunnel together
with the beoring. 3. Disconnect the pedol
from the coble ofter
ioosening the clomp.
Removol ond Refitting of Bowden Tubing
ond Cqble
The Bowden tubing is
fostened to
the brocket
irr the floor tunnel by
meons of circlips. After
their removol, pull
the Bowden tubing inside
the cor. On ref
itting the tubing, lubricote it with
o low-viscosity oil (of
the SAE 20
closs). lt hos
been lubricoted with greose
in the foctory.
Fit
the clonrps so thot their longer ports (from
the
screw to their end) ore on the side of the
I evers.
Accelerotor Coble Adiustment
Adjust the coble so
thot it is not
excessively
tensioned or too slock. Loosen the clomps on
the engine side of the coble, move slightly
the
clomp toword the reloy lever,
ond tighten the
screws of the clomp.
12.3 GEAR SHIFT LEVER
AND LINKAGE
The geor shift mechonism consists of two
units: the geor
lever with its housing ond oc-
cessories, ond the geor
shifter rod
ond the
shifter lirrk with joint
(ot the georbox)
for
domping the vibrotion of the power
pock
tronsnritted to the geor
lever.
Removing Geor Lever
Housing ond Link
1. Lift owoy the mot from the floor tunnel in
the front ond reor comportment. lf seporote,
remove the individuol floor mots ofter hoving
prised out their clips with o screwdriver or
o similor tool. lf o one-piece floor
covering is
used, remove the door sill strips
on one side,
tip the seot, ond bend over the
floor covering.
2. Remove the geor
lever housing copscrews
ond prise
out the lid (next
to the clip) between
the seots. Proceed through the
operture to dls-
connect the bolted connection of the link with
the housing shifter rod.
3. Lift
owoy the housing with the lever
through the operture. Swivel the lever so thot
the shifter rod
does not protrude
over the
housing beoring thus obstructiong the removol.
4. Usuolly it is not necessory to remove the
geor shift link from
the cor. lf
obsolutely necess-
ory, the link con be
disconnected only ofter
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13.11 WINDSCREEN WIPER
Technicol Description
The rotory windscreen wiper consists of the
wiper motor
with o geor
cosing, o lever system
driving the wiper orms, ond two wiper orms
with wiper blodes.
The two-pole wiper motor
with permonent
mognets is o two-speed
unit with self'lubri'
coting beorings. The geor
cosing comprises onepicyclic
geor
ond on outomotic self-porking
device. The shoft runs in self'lubricoting beor'
ings, the geors
being lubricoted with greose
pocked into the geor
cosing. The lever system
(leveroge) includes self-lubricoting
ioints ond
beorings.
Windscreen wiper
tyPe -
for left-hond steering .
- for right-hond steering
Roted voltoge
Roted current PAL 443.122
-
081.071
PAL 443.122 -
076.071
-12
volts
4 omperes ot high speed,
2.5 omperes ot low speed
60 ot high speed (minimum)
20 (minimum)
to 50 (moximum)
ot low speed
15 cycles per
minute (minimum)
onticlockwise -
for left-hond steering
clockwise -
for right-hond steering
Wiping
cycles per
minute
Difference of cycles between speeds
Direction of
rototion when viewing
the output
shoft
I
i
f1
llr
fi.,
il
lr
l Removol
ond
Refitting
According to the
noture of the required re-
poir, remove either only the motor with the geor
cosing after hoving disconnected the pullrod
from the cronk, the cronk from the geor
cosing,
ond the geor
cosing from the brocket, or remove
the complete unit
ofter removing the wiper orm
beorings -
see wiper orm drive.
When ref itting
the windscreen wiper unit,
observe the
ossembly position of the
wiper
cronk -
see the following porogroph "Motor
ond
Geor Cosing". For position
of the wiper
orms
(blodes), see the porogroph 'Wiper
Arms". ln-
stoll the brocket into the body bulkheod ond
fosten it in position
with the nut, using o rub-
ber ond o flot wosher.
Cleoning ond Repoirs
When disossembling the windscreen wiper
motor, do the following jobs:
1. Reploce worn brushes ond use petrol
to
cleon motor ports
ofter blowing the dust out of
the brushes; moke sure thot the brushes move
freely in their cells. 2. lf the commutotor is
dirty, cleon it
with
petrol, if it is domoged, re-turn ond polish
it.
3. During cleoning, the self-lubricoting beor-
ings must not come into contoct with the
cleoning (degreosing)
ogent (petrol,
etc.). They
should be lubricoted
only with o low-pour-point
oil dripped into the cut-outs of the
cup retoining the boll beoring ond
the felt. Use only os much
oil os the felt con hold.
4. For the epicyclic geor
in the geor
cosing
use greoses
specif ied in Chopter 15.3 -
either
of foreign
moke or of
Czechoslovok moke -
re-
commended specificolly
for windscreen wipers.
MOTOR AND GEAR CASING
Ports of the motor
with the geor
cosing (or
geored motor) is the wiper brocket,
the pro.
tective housing, ond the driving cronk. When
instolling the wiper, put
the housing
on the
motor with the geor
cosing ond clomp it from
below. Bolt down the brocket using ploin
woshers under the bolts. Fosten the motor
eorthing coble under one
of the bolts.
Fosten the cronk in position
using o nut
ond
o spring wosher while observing its ossembly
position:
o) with wipers for left-hond steering-toword
the right-hond side
of the motor ond deflected
13o downword from
the oxis porollel
with the
centre line
of the motor;
b) with wipers for right-hond steering
toword the left-hond side of the motor ond de-
f lected 17" downword from the oxis porollel
with
the centre line
of the motor.
Dismontling the Geor Cosing 1. Remove three screws ond lift owoy the
cover.
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