Outer CV Joint, Checking: Disassembling
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2021 Audi S4 and 2021 Audi A4 Quattro. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
-- Mark the position of the ball hub -2- to ball cage -3- and to housing -1- before disassembling, using an electric engraver or grindstone.
-- Tilt the ball hub and ball cage.
-- Remove the balls one after the other.
-- Turn the cage, until two rectangular windows -arrow- rest on the joint housing.
-- Lift out cage with hub.
-- Tilt the hub segment with shorter pins into rectangular window on the cage.
-- Fold hub out from cage.