Evning all
I stripped my sierra drive shaft down to shotblast the drive sharft and powder coat and dropped one of the parts that holds some sort off bearing and it fell apart dooooooow. i found all the bearings and cannot put the fing thing back together any tips on how this can be done please.




many thanks
Mark

[Edited on 19/6/11 by hootsno1]

Best advice I got was dont let the ball bearings out of any of the others and pop down to the motor factors to get a new one.

If you search or some one else can find it there is a post that explains the DARK ARTS of rebuilding a CV joint. I never got it to work.

Sorry its not the most helpfull advice.

Paul

If my memeory serves me right you do it by fitting opposing balls and tilting the inner and outer appropriatle relative to each other so that you can just get each ball (individually) into the middle of it's cage slot. It is also easier without the shaft fitted into the centre of the uj.

HTHs

JGG.

thanks guys i was trying to put all the ballss in at the same time i will try doing them one at a time
many thanks
mark

see my old post...

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=27117


Paul

Sympathies... I killed the first joint out of four by not keeping everything marked and reassembling in the correct order.

Although I got it back together, it would not articulate freely. So I binned it. The new joint was only 25 squid or so.