Locky1978
Active Member
Well what a day. A day of woe.
Following on from my problems of pressing the drive shaft out of the rear hub to replace a rear wheel bearing, I found someone with a 50ton press which sorted that. Went with a hell of a bang when it started moving.
Onto the next problem of pressing the driveshaft back into the hub on re-assembly. I cleaned the splines well but it was still ridiculously tight.
To cut a long story short I don't have the land rover tool to pull the shaft into the hub so I thought I could knock it back in from the end of the inner CV joint (not ideal I know, but the joints are pretty beefy) well it took some knocking in but in doing this It released all the balls from the inner CV joint.
That CV joint took me about three hours to get it back together. The covers are crimped on, and there is a very special position that all the balls/ cage and inner race drop back together. I still don't know how it went back together it just kinda fell together after three hours covered in CV grease and nearly throwing the thing across the garage. The inner joint isn't like a regular cv with a lot of articulation. You have to use a combination of having all the balls in place around the inner race, in the cage with the cage and inner race at the correct height for everything to fall together.
Hope I haven't caused myself any driveline vibration issues but I'm sure time will tell. I didn't want to buy another shaft as even second hand ones are £££
Following on from my problems of pressing the drive shaft out of the rear hub to replace a rear wheel bearing, I found someone with a 50ton press which sorted that. Went with a hell of a bang when it started moving.
Onto the next problem of pressing the driveshaft back into the hub on re-assembly. I cleaned the splines well but it was still ridiculously tight.
To cut a long story short I don't have the land rover tool to pull the shaft into the hub so I thought I could knock it back in from the end of the inner CV joint (not ideal I know, but the joints are pretty beefy) well it took some knocking in but in doing this It released all the balls from the inner CV joint.
That CV joint took me about three hours to get it back together. The covers are crimped on, and there is a very special position that all the balls/ cage and inner race drop back together. I still don't know how it went back together it just kinda fell together after three hours covered in CV grease and nearly throwing the thing across the garage. The inner joint isn't like a regular cv with a lot of articulation. You have to use a combination of having all the balls in place around the inner race, in the cage with the cage and inner race at the correct height for everything to fall together.
Hope I haven't caused myself any driveline vibration issues but I'm sure time will tell. I didn't want to buy another shaft as even second hand ones are £££
