Do-it-yourself replacement of pivots on a Gazelle. Learning and doing

Anyone who has studied their native roads well will eventually need to replace the pivots with the Gazelle. The majority of the people prefer to carry it out with their own hands - the one who has a similar domestic car, probably managed to get to know it inside and out and hardly has the desire and money to entrust the car to some, albeit good, foreign craftsmen from car services.

A hint that the kingpins need to be replaced is a knock and characteristic shaking in the suspension. To make sure that it is in them, you need to hang out the suspected wheel, grab it from above and below and try to shake the ramp in the position towards you / away from you.

There is a backlash, which means that either the kingpins or the wheel bearing are covered. A further check will be to turn the wheel outward and observe the movement of the knuckle while continuing to rock. The frequency of changing the pivots is affected not only by roads, but also by the driving style (the more aggressive it is, the faster the suspension breaks), the degree of wheel wear, and the regularity of injections.

Do-it-yourself replacement of pivots on the Gazelle- the process is not too complicated. When you are used to servicing your car yourself, it will not take too much time. How to make work, read more in our next article.

Work order

Since you will need to disassemble the whole assembly, it is worth checking the accompanying elements in parallel.

Process details

If you have not dealt with the pivots of your Gazelle before, we will share the best practices of more experienced craftsmen. Firstly, when buying a repair kit, you need to be extra vigilant: periodically you come across pivots with a smaller cross section than you need. It is better to go shopping with a micrometer, so as not to return for a replacement (which, by the way, may be denied). Secondly, when purchasing pivots, pay attention to the bearings - they must be in a thick lubricating composition and rotate without the slightest crunch.

And so that replacing the pivots on the Gazelle with your own hands is needed less often and proceeds without difficulty, do not forget to clean the screw groove on the bushings and introduce lubricant into it. It is precisely because of the clogging of this channel and the lack of oil on the bushings that the removal of the kingpin often takes more time than all other procedures - it turns sour from water and dirt so that it has to be knocked out with soaking, heating and waving a sledgehammer.