Opel Frontera

since 1992 of release



Fronter's Opel
+ Opel Frontera brand Cars
+ Current leaving and service
+ Engine
+ cooling and heating Systems
+ Power supply system and release
+ engine Electric equipment
+ Coupling
+ Manual box of gear shifting
+ Driveshafts, main transfer
+ Brake system
- Suspension bracket and steering
   + Suspension bracket of forward wheels and forward bridge
   + Suspension bracket of back wheels and back bridge
   - Steering with the hydraulic booster
      Verifying and adjusting works on a steering
      Works on a steering drive
      Steering wheel and steering column
      Steering mechanism
      Pump of the hydraulic booster
      Safety cushion
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment
+ Governing bodies and operation
+ electric equipment Schemes




Steering wheel and steering column

GENERAL INFORMATION

Removal and installation of a steering wheel and column are various depending on a year of release of the car. Previously it is necessary to disconnect a weight cable from the storage battery.
Cars since 1995 of release are equipped with a safety cushion the address with which demands a certain knowledge.

REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION OF THE STEERING WHEEL

Cars till the end of 1997 of release

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Remove in the center of a steering wheel a cover with a key of a sound signal.
2. Mark with paint the mutual provision of a nave of a steering wheel and a steering shaft that at assembly to establish them in former situation.
3. Unscrew a nut of fastening of a steering wheel and remove a lock washer. For this purpose it is necessary to hold a steering wheel for a nave.
4. Remove a steering wheel a stripper. In a nave of a wheel there are two openings in which stripper screws, as shown are rolled.
5. The contact ring of a sound signal from a reverse side of a steering wheel can be replaced.

Installation

The steering wheel in sequence is established, to return to removal. The nave of a wheel should be combined with marking on the helmsman to a shaft, put at removal. The nut of fastening of a steering wheel is tightened by the moment of 35 Nanometers.
In summary check correctness of installation of a steering wheel as it is described above.

Cars since 1997 of release


Prevention
It is recommended to carry out removal of a steering wheel in the presence of a safety cushion in a repair truck.
Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Remove a safety cushion as it is described below.
2. If the safety cushion is not present, uncover in the center of a steering wheel. For this purpose unscrew a bolt shown by an arrow.
3. Mark the mutual provision of a nave and a steering shaft and unscrew a fastening nut. Hold thus a steering wheel for a nave.
4. Rasstykuyte shtekerny connection of a cable plait.

Installation

The steering wheel in sequence is established, to return to removal. In the presence of a safety cushion it is necessary to take into consideration given below the indication of security measures. The nut of fastening of a steering wheel is tightened by the moment of 35 Nanometers. Thus the wheel is necessary for holding for a spoke from a provorachivaniye. Do not forget to join shtekerny connection. In summary check correctness of provision of a steering wheel and action of a sound signal.

REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION OF THE STEERING COLUMN

Removal

It is necessary to distinguish the car till 1997 of release.

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Disconnect a weight cable from the storage battery.
2. At removal of a steering column it is necessary to take into consideration also the instruction provided in the previous subsection under heading "Cars since 1997 of release".
3. Remove a steering wheel as it is described above for cars of the corresponding year of release.
4. Unscrew two bolts for model since 1997 of release and remove cowl blocking.
5. Remove the bottom facing of the dashboard.
6. Rasstykuyte shtekerny connection of adjustment of a driving beam of headlights for models since 1997 of release.
7. Unscrew two bolts of fastening of a casing of a shaft of a steering and remove a casing 
8. Disconnect a steering column from the kardanny hinge, previously having marked the mutual provision of details according to иллюстр.
9. After that unscrew a nut and beat out a bolt.

Prevention
In the presence of a safety cushion pay attention that the steering column remains in the center of contact knot.
10. Unscrew bolts of fastening of a steering column. Two bolts are on the dnishchevy leaf, two on the top collar.

Now take out a steering column assembled. If thus gets jammed the kardanny hinge on the steering mechanism, it is necessary to disunite the hinge, and then take out a steering column.

Installation

The steering column in sequence is established, to return to removal. It is necessary to pay attention to assembly of the kardanny hinge and a steering shaft. The moments of an inhaling of boltovy connections and sequence are given below.

REPLACEMENT OF THE STEERING LOCK AND BEARING OF THE STEERING COLUMN

Details can be replaced without removal of a steering column. However it is necessary to drill openings in bolts fastening of the steering lock to turn out them other bolts with the left carving.

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Remove a steering wheel as it is described above.
2. Unscrew bolts of fastening and remove a facing casing of a steering column.
3. Disconnect the switch from a steering column and расстыкуйте shtekerny connection.
4. Remove a lock ring in the top part of a steering column and take out the loose leaf.
5. Insert the ignition key into the lock and turn it in the situation "OFF". The lock of a steering cannot be removed, if it is blocked.
6. Rasstykuyte shtekerny connection of the lock of ignition.
7. To Nakernita heads of srezny bolts a center punch also drill in them openings a drill.
8. Cut the left carving and screw bolts for съема.
9. Turn out bolts and remove the lock with bearing knot.

The steering lock and the bearing of a steering column as follows are put:

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Put the lock of a steering wheel and bearing knot into place, and wrap srezny bolts so that the lock was fixed.
2. Establish the switch of a starter and check operation of the lock and the switch.
3. Tighten bolts, as shown, - so that heads were cut off.
4. In summary join shtekerny connection of a cable and establish a lock ring and the loose leaf.
5. Fix the combined switch and join its shtekerny connection. In the presence of a safety cushion track, that the contact knot was in the center.
6. Fix a facing casing of a steering column.
7. Establish a steering wheel according to car model.

DISMANTLING AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STEERING COLUMN

When dismantling a steering column it is necessary to consider distinction in a design of columns with the fixed and adjustable provision of a column on height. For dismantling the column is necessary for removing.

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Remove the steering lock as it is described above.
2. At the fixed steering column remove a lock ring from the end of a column and take out the loose leaf.
3. At an adjustable steering column unscrew a terminal bolt of the top kardanny hinge and take out the bottom shaft and the hinge from a column. If it is necessary to replace any details, it is necessary to mean that the top shaft, the mechanism of capsizing and a column should be from one set.

Assembly

Assembly the helmsman of a column is carried out as follows:

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. At the fixed column grease basic surfaces with greasing and insert a shaft into the coupling and a steering column.
2. Establish a lock ring on a shaft.
3. At an adjustable steering column establish on a column the bottom shaft and coupling knot.
4. Fix the top coupling a terminal bolt.
5. Put on a steering column the lock of a steering and the bearing as it is described above.
6. Establish a steering column into place according to car model.