Subaru Legacy/Outback

1999-2003 of release

Repair and operation of the car

Removal and installation of a fuel tank

REMOVAL

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Tire out the car on the elevator.
2. Empty a fuel tank (see the Section Depletion of a Fuel Tank).

3. Remove a clamp of fastening of an electrical wiring of a fuel tank on a basic arm.

4. Disconnect a tank electrical wiring from a back plait.

5. Lift a back seat, unbend edge of a carpet and push inside the plug of an electrical wiring through passage of a fuel tank in a cover of a service opening.

6. Remove a service cover and disconnect an electrical wiring and fuel lines from pump assembly (see the Section Service of the Fuel Pump).
7. Remove a cable of the drive of the parking brake (see the Head Brake system).
8. Give wheel nuts, lift the car and remove back wheels.

9. Remove the forward lateral panel of protection of a fuel tank.

10. Remove back section of system of production of the fulfilled gases with the muffler (see the Section Removal and installation of sections of system of production of the fulfilled gases).
11. Remove the driveshaft.

12. Disconnect an electrical wiring from the ABS sensor.

13. Turn out bolts of fastening of basic arms of back sections of a driving cable of the parking brake and hydraulic hoses of brake system.

14. On models with disk brake mechanisms of back wheels remove supports of brake assemblies and tie up them to suspension bracket elements (see the Head Brake system). On models with drum back brake mechanisms disconnect from wheel cylinders hydraulic hoses (see the Head Brake system).

15. Give nuts of fastening of shock-absorbers to levers of a back suspension bracket.

16. Turn out bolts of fastening of elements of a suspension bracket to a body and remove assembly of a back suspension bracket assembled.

17. Remove back panels of lateral protection of a fuel tank.

18. Disconnect hoses from the double-thread valve and a tube of the vaporizing line.

19. Release fixing collars and disconnect the main and ventilating hoses from a jellied mouth of a fuel tank.

20. Secure with the help of the assistant, prop up a fuel tank a transmission jack, turn out boltykrepleniye of assembly tapes and take a tank from under the car.

Check of a state

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Attentively examine a tank on existence of cracks, holes and other mechanical damages.
2. Check a state and passability of fuel tubes and hoses.

INSTALLATION

PERFORMANCE ORDER

Installation is made upside-down. Track that all fixture was tightened with the demanded effort (see Specifications and illustrations to the subsection "Removal").

The final tightening of bolts of fastening of assembly tapes is made after completion of connection of fuel lines and hoses, - track reliability of fixing of nipple connections.