To renovate CV joints,
follow Fabrice's advice
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- The driveshaft removed from the car.
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- The two new boots, the new outer joint shield and two tubes of special CV grease.
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- 1- Take off the ties/clamps (carefully if you haven't any new ones !!!)
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- 2- Pull the old boot back towards the interior.
- If it doesn't want to know, then use a screwdiver or cutters on it.
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- 3- Take out the cage - very carefully !
- You must only strike against the balls' interior cage.
- Be careful not to touch the balls or the cage.
- Clamping the shaft in a vice makes it easy.
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- 4- Cleaning and disassembly of the cage (personally I use petrol, but that's dangerous...)
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5- Do the same on the other side.
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- 6- Disassembly of the bearing for cleaning and checking.
- Using pliers, take out the circlip.
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- 7- Remove the bearing by changing the strike point each time (a third of a turn)
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- 8- Clean and check the bearing.
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- 9- Re-assembly of the cage and boot. Start by putting the boot on the shaft.
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- It's quite difficult, but we get there in the end
(the relative elasticity of the boot...).
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- 10- Put roughly half the tube of grease into the cage.
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- 11- Put the cage back in place and put the other half of the grease in the boot.
- Just the weight of the shaft on the workbench is enough to put it back.
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- 12- Close up by tightening the ties/clamps well.
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- 13- Same for the joint shield and the second boot.
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Thanks to Fabrice for this superbe and complete report, and thanks to hoverfrog for this translation.
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