removing outer cv joints

[mart1975]

how do you get these off the turbo shafts? ive pulled back the boots but cannot see a way.

[adamh]

theres a round circlip further down the splines, this retains the two parts together... you cant see it, or do anything to get it off once its together.. what u do is hold driveshaft in vice... wallop the old cv precisely with copper hammer etc.. this compresses and often breaks retaining ring inside.. off comes cv. try squirting wd40 down between shaft & hole first. its not dead easy... but then 13 people here have done it... n/p.
my FBH is called murphy.

[mart1975]

thanks so all the bearings come off too?

[adamh]

fu*k no! other side of the joint matey.. keep the balls intact.. tape them, tie wrap, sellotape. duck tape.. whatever... dont let them little f*ckers out.

[mart1975]

lol ok mate

[superchargedsam]

Mart if they do come out Adam can get them back in in about 60 seconds so you always send them down country ! ;) only joking do a search this is possible worse aprt of swap after fuel tank dropping !

[welly_59]

one of mine came off pretty easy with a big hammer smacking the end but the other one bugger me! took nearly an hour to get it off. started off doing it gently then got a bit harder, by the end i was smacking it as hard as i could an it still wouldnt come off!

[mart1975]

right ive destroyed the rings that sit round it now i cannot see where it breaks. it looks like 1 solid unit to me. where does it break? a,b,c

http://www.twobrutal.co.uk/forum/images/recovered/2006/04/87.jpg

[welly_59]

umm think u looking at the wrong bit there mate

[mart1975]

this is the cv joint right?

[welly_59]

the cv joint comes off the end of the driveshaft. the whole end bit comes off, and the clip you need to break is inside the cv joint itself.

You need to put the driveshaft into a vice, and bang the whole end bit off with a mallet or similar. try and keep the cv joint inline with the shaft and it should be easier

[mart1975]

im lost, i always though this was the cv joint.

[mart1975]

any pics?

[welly_59]

yes that is the cv joint, the whole thing comes off the driveshaft, not from a b or c. the driveshaft itself is just the metal bar which the cv joints connect to. So on the outer side you need to get the whole lot off including the swively bit of the cv joint(where the ballbearings are, the outer ones not the inner)

[welly_59]

http://www.twobrutal.co.uk/forum/images/recovered/2006/04/88.jpg

thats a pic of a cv joint if it helps. u gotta get that off the end of the shaft

[Paul Woods]

i tell you what,ive got this to do tomorrow so how about i do a step by step piccy write up on swapping the cv joints for new partsinabox items? how does that sound.

[mart1975]

cheers, i dont need the rings anyway so no worries, that would help paul for any future swappers also.

[mart1975]

sorted. with the gentle use of a lump hammer.
all off

[Sponge Bob]

that sounds like a cracking idea Paul - will help to remove any of my gremlins too...!

[nik]

writeup..? here you go..
1. twat it fcuking hard until it comes off.
2. fit new one.