LEXUS RX 300

1998 — 2003 of release

Repair and car operation



RX 300 Lexus
+ Lexus RX-300 Cars
+ Governing bodies and operation receptions
+ Settings and routine maintenance of the car
+ Engine
+ Systems of cooling of the engine, heating, ventilation and air conditioning
+ the Power supply system and production of the fulfilled gases
+ Systems of electric equipment of the engine
+ Automatic transmission and interaxal differential
- Transmission line
   General information
   Removal and driveshaft installation
   Removal, dismantling, assembly and installation of forward power shafts
   Removal, dismantling, assembly and installation of back power shafts
   Replacement of a forward epiploon of back differential
   Replacement of lateral epiploons of back differential
   Removal and installation of the case of back differential, differential dismantling
+ Brake system
+ Suspension bracket and steering
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment
+ Schematic diagrams of electric connections




Removal, dismantling, assembly and installation of back power shafts

See remarks at the beginning of the Section Removal, dismantling, assembly and installation of forward power shafts.

Removal and installation

Components of a back power shaft

1 — Assembly of a power shaft
2 — the Fixing cap
3 — the Pin
4 — the Lock ring
5 — Tripodny the hinge

6 — the Sensor of speed of ABS
7 — the Case of the tripodny hinge
8 — Protective covers
9 — Collars
10 — the Power shaft
11 — the Boot No. 2


 PERFORMANCE ORDER

  1. Remove the corresponding back wheel.
  2. Turn out two bolts and remove back section of an exhaust pipe together with laying.
  3. Turn out a bolt and remove the sensor of speed of ABS.
  4. Take a pin, remove fixing cap and turn out a stupichny nut.
  5. Put labels on the case of the tripodny hinge and on a flange of back differential.
  6. Turn out 4 nuts, remove washers and disconnect a power shaft from differential.
  7. Remove a power shaft from the holder.
  8. Installation is made upside-down. Tighten fixture with demanded efforts, after installation check serviceability of functioning of ABS sensors, and also check and if necessary adjust corners of installation of back wheels.

Dismantling

 PERFORMANCE ORDER

  1. Check power shafts:
    • External hinges should not have excessively big люфта;
    • Make sure of smoothness of movement of the internal hinge in the support direction;
    • Make sure of absence excessively big люфта internal hinges in the radial direction;
    • Check protective covers on existence of damages.
  2. By means of a screw-driver remove collars of protective covers of hinges.
  1. Put labels on the case of the tripodny hinge and on a power shaft and remove the hinge case from a power shaft.

Do not use for drawing of labels a chisel.


  1. Remove a lock ring and put labels on the tripodny hinge and on a power shaft.

Do not use for drawing of labels a chisel.

  1. Bring down a hammer and a pig from soft metal the tripodny hinge from a power shaft.
  2. Remove protective covers with collars.
  3. The external hinge is not subject to dismantling.
  4. Fix a power shaft in a vice with soft sponges and by means of a screw-driver and a hammer bring down from a shaft a boot No. 2, trying not to damage a rotor of the sensor of speed of ABS.

Do not damage a rotor of the sensor of speed of ABS.

Assembly

 PERFORMANCE ORDER

  1. Napressuyte a new boot No. 2 on a shaft.
  1. Temporarily establish new covers of hinges with collars.

Before installation of protective covers wind shlitsa of a power shaft with a vinyl tape to prevent their damage.

  1. Place on a power shaft the tripodny hinge a konusny part to the external hinge and level adjusting labels of the hinge.
  2. Napressuyte the hinge on a power shaft by means of a hammer and a pig from soft metal. Establish a lock ring.
  3. Fill in a cover of the internal hinge 180 ÷ 190 of g of yellow greasing, level adjusting labels of the case of the hinge and fix the case to differential.
  4. Fill in a cover of the external hinge 107 ÷ 117 of g of gray greasing.
  1. Make sure that covers come into grooves on driving to a shaft and are not deformed at standard length of a shaft.
  1. Fix protective covers collars, having tightened them a screw-driver.