Re: outer cv

[Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net>]

>May I reccomend a brass hammer?  I have come accross way too many CV joints
>that have had the heck beat out of them causing premature failure.  I always
>use a brass hammer, then you can hit it rather hard without causing any
>problems and then use it to tap the CV joint back on since a brass hammer
>won't mushroom the threaded shaft!!!  HTH!
>
>Dave

Good idea Dave.  I left out of my 1st response that I usually use a pretty
big punch with a cut off flattened end to just smack the inner ball cage.
Turn the shaft 90-180 degrees and hit it again, turn and hit, turn and hit.
Will take some time, but it should eventually come off.

==Brett

> > >how do you get the outer cv joint off of a 90mm
> > >axle?  The ones that we have don't seem to have
> > >the circlip below the washer, and the joint won't
> > >pound out with a hammer....
> > >
> > >
> > >Alex Ting
> >
> > Pound the joint off with a hammer, no really. :)  Just
> > hit it harder.  There's probably a clip retainer
> > down in the joint on the shaft where you can't see it.
> > It must be 'defeated' before the joint will move off
> > the shaft, and the retainer clips are single use only
> > naturally.

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