Inner CV Joint, Checking: Installing
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Install in the reverse order of removal while noting the following:
-- Insert the ball hub into the ball cage via two chamfers. The installation position is arbitrary. Press the ball hub into the ball cage.
-- Insert the ball hub -1- with the ball cage -3- and balls -2- upright into joint piece -4-.
- When inserting, make sure that in each case the wide gap -a- at joint piece contacts narrow gap -b- at the ball hub after swinging in.
- Chamfer on inner diameter of ball hub (splines) must face the large diameter of the joint.
- Make sure to use the markings made during removal to help with assembly.
-- Swing in ball hub, to do so swing out the ball hub far enough from the ball cage -1- -arrows- until the balls have the distance of the running paths.
-- Pivot the ball hub -1- with the balls by pressing forcefully onto the cage -arrow-.
-- CV joint, checking for function:
- The CV joint -2- is properly assembled, if the ball hub can be slid back and forth by hand over whole compensation length.