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- From: tklohck@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (tim)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Help with CV joint replacement
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.004055.22711@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:40:55 GMT
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- Reply-To: tklohck@etch-eshop.Berkeley.EDU (tim)
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- >I am about to undertake a CV joint replacement on my 1984 SUBARU GL wagon. I have
- >never done this before. Anything to look out for? Any tips? Any special tools
- >needed?
-
- I had a problem with my '82 Subaru DL that I finaly traced to the wheel
- bearing. In the mean time, I had the whole half axel out. I was after
- the hub at the time (to take it to have the new bearings pressed in at my
- machine shop.) Once the hub is out, pulling the drive line out is easy.
- You just need to take a punch (a narrow steel rod with a wider end) and
- a hammer and tap out a pin on the transmision side and it slides right
- out.
-
- Now getting the hub out is another matter. It requires popping the tie-rod
- end and ball joint with this thing that looks like a overgrown tuning
- fork. The people who know what they're doing call it a pickle fork. You
- also have to remove the break caliper and its bracket and the rotor of
- course. If you've never done break work, then there are a few simple yet
- important things to know like don't torque the axel nut too much when
- you're puting it back on, and DONT press the break pedal when your
- caliper is hanging loose. (Duh. This caused me much grief once when I tried to
- bleed one side while the other side's rotor was being turned.) Then the
- only remaining tricky part is getting the axel out of the bearing. It's
- a pretty tight fit and really took me a lot of finnessing to pull it out
- by hand. Getting it back in required an aluminum pipe and a lot of
- patient tapping with a hammer.
-
- Now after all that about hub removal, the fact of the matter is that on
- some models you don't have to remove the hub at all. If you undo the
- tierod, then you can turn the hub enough so that you can pull the axel
- out of it without taking it out. But like I said, it's a pretty tight
- fit and I think that would have been pretty awkward in my case.
-
- So all that was about getting the drive line out. If you only want to
- replace the CV joint (I assume you mean the outer u-joint and not the
- one on the tranny side called the double offset razamatasm
- somthinerother joint) and not the whole half axel, then you'll need some
- more advice from someone else. Usually, I think they replace the whole
- axel, but I know you can take the axel in to a specialist and have him
- fix part of it. (Netters?)
-
- Anyway, e-mail me if you run into anything confusing.
-
- Timothy Klohck
- UC Berkeley Mathematics
- tklohck@etch-eshop.berkeley.edu
-