Rear airbag replacement or how to kill 4 hours… — logbook Toyota Vista 1998

This problem appeared about a month ago, namely, the front and rear engine mounts were torn. The front one was immediately ordered, and the ORIGINAL, but something about the price does not please him at all (2000r.), And then the back ordered to live long! here already I could not stand it and climbed into the specialized forums. From all the information, a certain reference was found to a Chinese product called a support silent block, it was actually ordered.

It's all lyrics, I turn to action. I have a garage, a good one, with a pit! BUT! A creature called stepfather lives in the garage, his car does not climb there in height, so he decided that the garage is a potato store. In short, the car is halfway in. To remove the rear cushion, it is necessary to unscrew the transverse beam and to my delight everything unscrewed! The pillow was removed, but then the fun began. The Chinese, as always, were mistaken by a few mm in diameter, but for some reason this did not bother me. Armed with the main tools of nanotechnology (nanosledgehammer and nanochisel), I enthusiastically began to hammer the old part, after an hour and a half of violence, it gave up ...

I take a new rubber band, but here it doesn’t fit on you. My happiness knew no bounds! I had to resort to completely radical measures - pick up a grinder and make four cuts across the metal clip of the gum and a miracle happened. She climbed into the support bracket, though for reliability she screwed in another self-tapping screw - it’s more reliable. and collected the car back, as it was.

Bottom line: 4 hours were killed, how much this design departs is unknown, but I also changed the front pads and got the confidence that everything is unscrewed ...