adam
[Edited on 25/3/07 by oadamo]
hi ive taken the drive shafts out of the front hubs because iam converting to rwd so i dont need them will this be ok. or do you need to leave the end
bit of the shaft in the hub with the big nut on to stop them from falling apart
adam
[Edited on 25/3/07 by oadamo]
definatley need to leave the joint in!!!
edit to say do you mean to use them or just while stripping??
[Edited on 25/3/07 by dilley]
to use them. are the bearing pressed in so that they can fall out.cus they seem solid on ive dropped the car back down without the shafts in or does
the shaft end hold everything together
adam
yes you have to have them in,
Put them back in ASAP and do the nuts up tight 
The bearings and hub are secured and pre-loaded by the shaft and nut. Resting the car back down on it's wheels may have damaged the bearing and
hub assembly and if you move/drive it it will fall apart.
dissemble at the cv joint, you can lathe off the excess material if you need.
oh ive just looked its still standing pmsl
bearing should be fine but my god man have you never serviced a front hub, its pretty dam obvious you need to keep the joint there to stop the flange falling out of the bearing. sorry dont mean to be so hard on you just seems blatantly obvious to me
Just leave the joint out & chase your wheels & hubs down the road regularly
I gues we all have to learn!
it did seem obvious to me but when i tuk the shaft out they seemed solid and i thought that it might of been pressed in from the back then fixed from
the front.and the bolt was just to hold the shaft from coming out. iam just a engine man ive never striped a hub down in my life lol
adam
so have you machined the excess metal from what was once a cv yet to make it become a tension bolt? (not sure of the correct definition)
that's exactly what you need to do, just chop off the joint cage to leave a stump with the nut the other side.
[Edited on 27/3/07 by NS Dev]
ive got to go and see a guy this weekend hes gonna have a look to so if he can do it. so hopefully ill have it all done by this weekend. i was gonna move it today then i tought i better not just in case the wheels droped off lol.
iv moved a few cars with out the driveshafts in, admittedly only in straight lines
Could you not just stick a big (fine thread) bolt in - with no torque to transmit it's not going to come undone like the cv joint would & no
need to worry about left & right hand threads.
No lathing required then, - just a suitable nut & bolt.
Bob
quote:
Originally posted by Bob C
Could you not just stick a big (fine thread) bolt in - with no torque to transmit it's not going to come undone like the cv joint would & no need to worry about left & right hand threads.
No lathing required then, - just a suitable nut & bolt.
Bob
quote:
Originally posted by Bob C
No lathing required then, - just a suitable nut & bolt.
Bob
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by Bob C
No lathing required then, - just a suitable nut & bolt.
Bob
You could chop the housing off the CV joint without a lathe IMO, though would not be as neat. Might need a few angle grinder cutting disks to get a pair done though!
you might not be so wise useing a bolt because the cv stub had a radius on it so that it spreads the load to the bearing nicely as flat face on the
bearing is normally only a few millimeters. try and use the cv stub if possible since it was designed for doing this. also u dont actually need to cut
the excess of all cutting the excess of will do is remove some unsprung weight and a bit of rotating mass, just take the cv to bits and just leave the
cup empty for the time being since its not imperative to shed this bit of weight
[Edited on 29/3/07 by goodall]