You know when you set of with good intensions and then it never goes to plan .

Well i had one split cv boot so i thought I'd change them all as the rest were looking quite perished and probably had never been changed from new as they still had ford stamped on the old ones.

After getting the shafts off the car and both CV ends off the shafts I thought it a good idea to part the joint and bearings and thoroughly clean the old grease off all went to plan until I put them back together. I figuerd out how to do that bit but after reassembling one shaft the CV joints are solid, i cannot swivel it or move the hub part backwards or forwards?

I've pulled the freshly greased CV apart again and I think the problem is that some of the 6 gaps in the inner basket(if thats whats its called) will not allow a bearing to pass through them.

I seem to remember reading somewhere on an old thread that someone filed these slightly before reassembly is that the right thing to do in this case?

Wouldn't have thought so. If it came apart without filing then it should go
back together without. It'll be a certain angle and position needed.

First time I did it it took a little while to work out what went wrong. The answer was that I had got the relative position between the inner cage and outer housing wrong it could be rotation (relative) OR, that the inner cage is the wrong way round (inner and outer faces reversed) OR, a combination of both (if that makes sense). All you can do is take them apart and start again.

Basically although they look like they go in anyway, they don't. You should NEVER need to do any 'filing'.

HTH


JGG

[Edited on 28/9/11 by jollygreengiant]

Ok, so even though the bearings are a little stiff to push through the cage this isn't the actual problem. I didn't notice the cage has a front and reverse?.

look on you tube there are loads of vids showing how to put them back together correctly.

I did exactly the same as you. Disassemble and flip the inner part around and reassemble

The grooves in the outer and inner parts should be opposite like this <> and not like this >>. I hope that makes sense

Dave

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Originally posted by Mad Dave
I did exactly the same as you. Disassemble and flip the inner part around and reassemble

The grooves in the outer and inner parts should be opposite like this <> and not like this >>. I hope that makes sense

Dave

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when back to it this morning and had them done in 10mins thanks everyone.

also bare in mind the orientation of the CV's on the shaft is important when your re-assembling them


Bolt-On Driveshaft Assembly

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Originally posted by mcerd1
also bare in mind the orientation of the CV's on the shaft is important when your re-assembling them


Bolt-On Driveshaft Assembly

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Originally posted by marco

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Originally posted by mcerd1
also bare in mind the orientation of the CV's on the shaft is important when your re-assembling them


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You lost me now?

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As it says in the wording, and the arrows in the diagram point to, "the guide groove on the circumference of the joints must be on the outside".

DH2

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Originally posted by DH2
As it says in the wording, and the arrows in the diagram point to, "the guide groove on the circumference of the joints must be on the outside".

DH2

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^^ thats the right way round in your pics (they should both look exactly like that)

I'll take a couple of pics later to make it clearer

[Edited on 30/9/2011 by mcerd1]

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Originally posted by mcerd1
^^ thats the right way round in your pics (they should both look exactly like that)

I'll take a couple of pics later to make it clearer

[Edited on 30/9/2011 by mcerd1]

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The metal cover on the end that carries the CV boot just taps off. Its only the bolts the actually hold it onto the main case.

(Just in case you were not aware.)

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Originally posted by jollygreengiant
The metal cover on the end that carries the CV boot just taps off. Its only the bolts the actually hold it onto the main case.

(Just in case you were not aware.)

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