[Buddies72]

OK, so I have now got 3 useless CV's here for my Vit, 2 broken and 1 rusted to s&*t....

So, time to make 1 useful CV out of 3 shafts.

Big thanks to stekky for pointing out the ways to separate a CV from the axles....

So basicly with some yelling and screaming and hitting the crap out of things with big hammers, keeping Damo's boss awake one night and then a bit more frustrated bashing, I managed to get all the relevant parts separated and cleaned to end up with this....





This is a buildup of the CV shaft rather than a strip-down. I was too messy to take progress photos whilst stripping, so if you want to pull one apart, do this in reverse, hopefully this will give you an idea where to start. Also please note I have no idea if I'm using the correct names for each of these parts, so no flames for getting it wrong!!!

So starting from the stub axle end of the shaft, take the ball cage, insert the inner axle/spline carrier and rotate.



Note that the ball cage has a couple of holes that are more square than the others, this is to allow the inner to be inserted and rotated into position.





So you should end up with it looking like this...



Now take the cage and insert/rotate it into position in the outer CV Ball Cup/stub axle thingy.



Note that you will need to line up the cage with the raised sections in the cup in order to get it into position so you can rotate the cage around to look like this...



Once this is done, you can move the cage around to insert the balls into the joint. First one side, then the opposite seemed to work best for me.









Until you eventually end up with all the balls in place in the cage like this.



You can now set this aside and work on the other CV.

On the inner side of the CV/Axle, put the inner spline/drive part on the end of the axle and install the circlip.





Now take the CV Ball Cage and install over the end of your axle assembly.



Note that the cage has raised sections on the inside which need to be rotated to go through the ball grooves of the inner.

Note also, that I've installed this cage the wrong way around, it should have come over the end of the axle from the other end, this allows protection for the bare end of the axle inside the CV cup where the circlip goes.





Now you can start to press your balls into place.



Now you are ready to put the bearing cup on the outside of the cage.

Note on this end of the CV/Axle, it is a simple slip in design, with a retaining clip to be inserted after.





Insert the retaining clip.







Then drive the other end of your axle into the CV assembled earlier, making sure not to go past the spring clip groove.



Now just grease them up(read: pack an absolute sh*&tload of grease into them), seat the CV boots , tie them up and you're done.

Note: It would be better to grease up whilst you go, but for the sake of showing reasonable pictures, and being able to take photos in the first place, I pulled them apart to grease them after.

Anyway, as I said, I hope this helps out. I know I could have used this info, so who knows.

[atari4x4]

:goodtech:

nice write up Buddies

[Mubby]

awesom wright up! will certainly help me if i ever need to change a cv in my cars!?

[fordem]

Nice write up.

For the outer CV, I like to pack it with grease before inserting the axle - and if you pack grease in the "axle hole", when you put the axle in, it forces that grease down into the joint, and back through the ball/cage assembly.

[Buddies72]

fordem wrote:

Nice write up.

For the outer CV, I like to pack it with grease before inserting the axle - and if you pack grease in the "axle hole", when you put the axle in, it forces that grease down into the joint, and back through the ball/cage assembly.

Cheers guys.

Yep, that's pretty much what I did, after taking all the photos and such. It would've been too messy to handle the camera otherwise.

[Microwire]

Thanks Heaps,

I've gotta change my CV so this will come in handy.

[swifty_ano]

How do you separate the outer CV from the axle?
I just need to change the drivers side outer CV?

[Buddies72]

swifty_ano wrote:

How do you separate the outer CV from the axle?
I just need to change the drivers side outer CV?

Depending on how your CV detonated, the end of your axle may be all mashed up from rolling around on the broken bits.

The outer end of the axle is retained with a spring clip, much the same as the axles ends in the front diff.

It should just be a matter of pulling/shocking it out, if you can get some sort of a puller setup onto it.

CV rebuild places have all of this gear.

It may be easier just to buy a whole axle, i don't think I've seen anyone just selling a single CV joint.