Outer CV Joint, Checking: Removing
-- Before disassembling mark ball hub position in relation to the ball cage and housing with an electric scribe or oil stone -arrow-.
-- Tilt ball hub and ball cage and remove balls one after another.
-- Turn cage until two cage windows -arrow- rest on joint body.
-- Lift out cage with hub.
-- Swing a hub segment in a cage window.
-- Fold hub out from cage.
NOTE:
The balls of each joint belong to one tolerance group. Check stub axle, hub, cage and balls for small depressions (pitting build-up) and chafing.
Excessive circumferential backlash in joint makes itself noticed via tip-in shock, in such cases joint should be replaced.
Flattening and running marks of balls are no reason to replace joint.