BMW 3 series E46

1 Open a cowl/cover of a luggage carrier and prop up them.

If газонаполненный the emphasis does not act in film, it cannot hold a cover in open position.

2 Cover of a luggage carrier: Remove sideways a lock washer-1. Below by means of a screw-driver remove spring bracket-2 a little, without removing it, and wring out газонаполненный an emphasis from a spherical head. The emphasis is under loading.

3 Cowl: Disconnect an emphasis from above and from below from spherical support for what a screw-driver take spring скобы a little, without removing them.

The gazonapolnennyj emphasis is under loading.

5 Establish an emphasis a screw-driver on a spherical support and completely enter lock bracket in шлиц.
6 Cover of a luggage carrier: Insert an emphasis from above over a pin and establish sideways a lock spring.

Recycling газонаполненного an emphasis

If газонаполненный the emphasis is replaced, before its recycling it is necessary to remove gas from an old emphasis. For this purpose the emphasis is necessary for clamping in a vice in area H = 50 mm. The emphasis should be clamped in this place, otherwise there is a danger! Then it is necessary to saw through the cylinder in first third of its general length, counting from a base edge from outside a rod. To collect pouring out oil, area реза it is necessary to close a rag. Besides, during cutting it is necessary to use goggles.