Inner CV Joint, Checking: Assembling
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-- Insert ball hub into ball cage via two chamfers. The installation position is at random. Press balls into cage.
-- Insert hub with cage and balls upright into joint piece.
- When inserting, make sure that in each case the wide gap -a- at joint piece contacts narrow gap -b- at hub after swinging in.
- Chamfer on inner diameter of wheel hub (splines) must face toward drive axle.
-- Swing in ball hub, to do so swing out hub far enough from cage -arrows- so that the balls have the distance of the running paths.
-- Swing in hub with balls by pressing forcefully onto cage -arrow-.
Check the CV Joint for Function.
CV joint is properly assembled, if ball hub can be slid back and forth by hand over whole compensation length.
-- Press grease into joint body.
Grease quantities and types, drive shaft with inner CV joint. Refer to OVERVIEW - DRIVE AXLE