1980 SKODA 120 LSE bonnet

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Boot lid
up to 1978 -
To open it, press
down
the release on the
right-hand side
underthe facia
oanel. Then
lift
the lid on the right-hand side and
secure it
in its raised position with
the aid of
the
articulated strut. After
lowering the
lid, lock it by
pulling the release as
far as it will go.
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Sinie 1978
open lid by pulling
handle and
lower as described above.
To
lock press lid above
catches. I
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Fig.1.3111 Controls
1 -
Geor lever
2 -
Hond broke
lever
3 -
Choke n
between Front
Seots
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Fig.1.3112 Switching Positions
of
Switchbox
c/w Steering Lock
0 -
All functions of
f, engine stopping
| -
lgnition on -
ignition system ond
oll ports
ol electricol equipment ore
supplied
with
curre nt
ll -
Engine storting -
before repeoting the
stort-
ing procedu,re,
return the key to the "0"
pos-
ition ond only then stort the
engine ogoin
STOP -
Position for
withdrowing the
ignition
key ond engoging the
steering lock (ofter
hoving withdrown the
ignition key,
turn the
steering wheel till
the lotch of the lock
c licks home
) .
lf the key connot be turned
when unlocking
the steering, relieve the stress
of the steering
geor by tuining the
steering wheel slightly-
LUGGAGE AND ENGINE
COMPARTMENTS
The moin luggoge comportment (boot)
is in
the forebody, the interior (inbuilt)
luggoge
comportment behind the
reor seot bockrests. Fig.
1.3/13 lloot Lid Releose
Engine bonnet -
To open it, pull
the lever in
the operture of the left-hond
reor door. To close
the bonnet, press
it down with the hond into
oosition.
For ony work in the engine comportment see
the notice in porogroph 1,
Chopter 2'1.
Fig. 13lM Reor Bonnet Releose Lever
SEATS, ADJUSTMENT AND CONVERSION
To moke the seot slide, unlock it by lifting
the lever ond tilt the bockrest by
rototing the
rosette. Set
Cor
by thr
only r
is pro
The
ofter
lifting
bock,
by its
positir
Ash
tion o
open i
its cos
hold i
inworc
first it
oshtro'
1.4 C,
Jqck
iock is
held in
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4.3
surfoces ore
sproyed with o
Protective com'
pound. The floor boords including the floor of
the boot ore covered with textile corpets while
rubber mots ore used in Skodo 105 S.
The in-
terior luggoge comportment is
lined with insu-
loting felt
sheet.
fne body finish consists of severol loyers of
speciol onti-corrosive cootings, o primer
coot,
ond o synthetic boking enomel top
coot in
colours complying with
o speciol specificotion.
14.1 BUMPERS
To Remove Front BumPer
Disconnect the
leods of the horn ond front
direction indicotors. Remove bolts connecting
the side sections of
the bumper with the wings
ond bolts of the bumper brockets, connecting
them to the wheel splosh guords. Now
the
entire bumper is free ond it con be removed.
Te Remove Reor BumPer
Proceed in the some woy with the exception
thot there ore no leods to be disconnected.
To Remove Overriders
Screw off the nut M 10 ond lift owoy the
overri der.
14.2 WTNGS
To Remove Front Wing
First remove the front bumper (see
Chop-
ter 14.1), the front door (see
Chopter 14.5), ond,
in the cose of the left-hond wing, the boot lid
Fig. 14.211- Removing Front Wing -
orrows
indicote fostening points (see
Chopter 14.3). lf the door sill is covered
with o trim moulding, loosen this moulding
portiolly. Now remove the bolts fostening the wing to
the bodywork under the sill (from
underneoth),
on the side edge of the body post,
in the chon'
nel next to the boot, ond in the forebody under
the heodlomp.
To Reinstqll Front Wing
lf the seol strip in the front
Port of the wing
is domoged, reploce it with o new one, ond
stick it on if it hos got
unstuck. Pock olwoys
o new seoling strip between the wing edge ond
the body fromework. Then instoll
the wing in
position ond locote it by tightening slightly the
connecting (fostening) bolts.
Do not tighten
the bolts firmly before hoving fitted properly
the wing.
14.3 BONNET AND BOOT LID
Removing Boot Lid
Remove the nut ond bolt of the strut ond
the screws fostening the
hinges, ond lift owoy
the complete lid.
Removing Engine Bonnet
Slip the bonnet strut out of
its guide,
screw
off the nuts of the hinge fostening bolts, ond
lift owoy the bonnet.
Reinstollotion ond Adiustment of Boot Lid
ond Engine Bonnet
Instoll the lid (or
bonnet) over
the luggoge
(or engine) comportment ond
tighten lightly
the bolts ond/or the nuts of the hinge bolts.
Moke the lid (or
bonnet) fit perfectly
with the
edges of the bodywork by shifting the hinges
in their respective holes
os necessory, ond
tighten fost the bolts ond/or nuts of the hinges-
Assemble the strut of the boot lid.
Boot Lid Releose Rod ond Engine Bonnet
Releose Coble
The releose rod of the boot lid (Fig.
1.3113)
is connected with the reloy link by meons of
o pin
ond forms on ossembly unit with the lid
locks. The
hondle of the releose rod con be
removed ofter pushing
out the pin.
The entire
ossembly con be lifted owoy ofter removing the
lid locks.
Reverse this procedure
to reinstoll the os'
sembly. Tighten the bolts of the locks lightly
ond fit the lid properly
in positlon.
Now odiust
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Dismontle the housing, remove
old greose,
cleon the individuol ports,
opply fresh greose,
ond reossemble the housing. Sook the felt rings
on the links (pull-rods)
in engine oil.
15.10 WHEELS AND TYRES, SNOW
CHAINS
Tyre Inflotion, Boloncing
ond lnterchonge
of Wheels
The procedures ore outlined in
Chopters 10.1
through 10.3. Snow
choins ond their use ore
deolt with in Chopter 10.6.
Wheel Toe-in -
see Chopter 16.1.
Shock Absorbers -
see Chopter 8.3 "Shock
Absorbers ".
15.11 ELECTRTCAL EQUTPMENT
Checking electrolyte level ond topping up --
see Chopter 13.2.
Sporking plugs -
electrode gop
odiustment,
etc. -
see Chopter 13.7.
Stqrter motor -
exqminqtion ond renewol of
brushes, etc. -
see Chopters 13.11 through 13.14.
lgnition timing, odiustment of contoct breoker
point gop, distributor lubricotion -
see Chop-
ter 15.3.
15.12 BODYWORK -
UNDERBODY
Woshing ond Mointenonce
The visible ports
of the body qre
f inislred in
o hord synthetic boking vornish, the remoining
ports in synthetic vornish.
The underbody is sproy-cooted
with o plostic
compound -
for detoiled informotion, see Chop-
ter '14.9.
Follow the
usuol procedures
when
woshing, cleoning ond polishing
the cor, ond
observe the specific instructions for
the use of
woshing ond cleoning preporotions,
issued by
their monufocturers.
All lights with the exception
of heodlomps
hove cosings of plostic
moteriols qnd
they
should be cleoned onlywith woteror shompoos.
When hosing down the corr
cover the voltoge
regulotor of the olternotor ond
the ignition coil
to protect
them ogoinst sploshing with woter,
ond do not
sproy woter direct on
the door lock
ond the lid covering the fuel
tonk filler neck.
Woshing ond Core of Underbody
Mechonisms
The underbody mechonisms
ore protected
with o synthetic vornish which stonds
well the
usuol woshing procedures.
Protect oll rubberports
ogoinst direct contoct with speciol chemi-
col solvLnts or limit the durotion of this
contoct
to o minimum before
o complete woshing off of
the solvents with woter (by
hosing down, etc.)'
Keep the oil cooler, if fitted on
the cor, in
cleon'condition. Hose
it down when woshing
the cor, ond if dirt still
sticks to the cooling
surfoces, use some of the detergents.
Bodywork Lubricotion
Routine mointenonce includes the
lubricotion
of door hinges ond limiters, hinges
ond releose
mechonismi of the engine bonnet ond boot lid,
the releose mechonism of
the spore wheel,
ond
the leveroge of windscreen wipers. Lubricotion
of inner dolor mechonisms is
included in
speciol
mqintenonce. Lubricote oll occessible mechcnisms
with
high-quolity greoses which
do not
dry, do not
oxldize, ond protect
the mechonisms ogoinst
corrosion for o long time. Oil is
not suitoble due
to its short-time efJect. Any greose con
be used
to lubricqte the
door limiters ond
the front
seot
slide roils.
Lubricotion of SporeWheel Corrier
Bearings-
Remove the spore wheel,
cleon the hinges, ond
opply oil on iheit
upper sides. In oddition, rub
in greose of ony brond.
Lubricotion of Windscreen Wiper
Leveroge -
Remove the cover of the
ioint (o
plostic cup),
f ill it with greose, lubricote the
ioint, ond
rein-
stoll tlre cover.
The Lubricotion of
Inner Door Mechonisms
is possible only
ofter removing the
door ponel
ond the inner 'door
mechonism. Use
only re-
commended greose brcnds.
Lubricote
the bowden
coble of thJwindow wind-up mechonism
with
Fig.15.1211- Lubricotion
of Windscreen Wiper
Leveroge Joint -
ioint cover
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