Your 2001 Chevy Impala is a expeditive and enjoyable family motorcar, with a smooth coerce. That is, until the strut assemblies activate to wear outside, unable to isolate your machine's entity from the steering-knuckle vibration caused by bumps and other pathway imperfections. Happily, you can situate distinct struts on your Impala Homewards using a unusual mild tools and a torque wrench. Yet, you Testament necessitate To possess the front-wheel alignment checked afterwards to prevent untimely tire wear.
Instructions
Remove the Strut Assembly
1. Lawns your Impala on a exact surface and sincere the hood.
2. Unfasten and remove the three upper-strut mounting nuts and washers using a ratchet, ratchet extent and socket. Conceive definite not to unbolt the upper-center kernel, which holds the coil spring to the strut under compel.
3. Loosen the front-wheel lug nuts using a lug wrench.
4. Proceeds the parking brake and fix your transmission to impartial.
5. Lift the front wheels off the ground using a floor jack and field jack stands under the vehivle frame on Everyone side for facilitate.
6. Chock the rear wheels.
7. Remove the front wheels using the lug wrench.
8. Match-mark the strut bracket at the steering knuckle using correction fluid so that you can install the distinct strut meeting in the duplicate position on the steering knuckle.
9. Grasp the strut-to-steering knuckle mounting bolt with a back-up wrench and unfasten the bolt-retaining peanut with a ratchet, ratchet period and socket. Then remove the second strut-to-steering knuckle mounting bolt and put them aside.
10. Tap slightly at the strut assembly with a rubber mallet to dislodge it from the steering knuckle, if necessary, and remove the assembly from the vehicle.
Installing the New Strut Assembly
11. Set the new strut assembly in place and position the strut bracket over the steering knuckle.
12. Thread the three upper-strut mounting nuts and washers hand-tight. Tighten the mounting nuts to 24 ft-lbs. (33 Nm) using a torque wrench.
13. Install the two strut-to-steering knuckle mounting bolts hand-tight. Align the strut bracket to the match-marks on the steering knuckle.
Finish tightening the lug nuts on the front wheels and remove the chocks.19. Take your car to the auto buy inspection and have the front wheels aligned if necessary.
15. Replace the other strut assembly, if necessary, beginning with Step 8 of the previous section through Step 4 of this section.
16. Mount the front wheels and thread the lug nuts snugly.
17.Lower your Impala using the floor jack.
18.14. Hold one of the strut-to-steering knuckle mounting bolts with the back-up wrench and tighten the retaining nut to 90 ft-lbs. (122 Nm). Tighten and torque the second strut-to-steering knuckle mounting bolt.
