Removing and installing front drive shaft: Removal
WARNING: This page is about a different variant/trim than selected.
- Before raising the vehicle, undo the drive shaft fastening at the wheel side! Actuate the brake while doing this!
- Remove diagonal brace to facilitate assembly (2 M12 screws)!
- Remove front wheel and underside panel.
- Undo the pan-head screws of the drive shaft on the transmission flange.NOTE:
- The CV joint can come apart if the dust bellows holder -arrow- is removed or damaged. The joint must therefore be secured against falling apart during removal, installation and transport with 8 mm screws + nuts (2 ea.)!
- Disengage air guide on control arm.
- Loosen stabilizer mount at stabilizer (counter with open-ended wrench).
- Undo track rod and control arm on wheel carrier. When loosening the fastening nuts, counter with special tool 9546 (Torx screwdriver)! Press ball joint off control arm -1-
with press-out tool 9560 -C-
and ball joint off track rod -2-
using a commercially available track rod extractor. See Fig 2
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Courtesy of PORSCHE OF NORTH AMERICA, INC.
- To prevent damage to the rubber sleeves of the ball joints, coat the rubber sleeves and the extractors in this area with tyre mounting paste!
- Push protective tube (shop-made) onto the drive shaft (profile shaft).
- Swivel (pull) spring strut outwards without using excess force and extend drive shaft.
- Since the drive shaft can be moved in the wheel hub toothing only with great use of force, undo the drive shaft using a copper mandrel (driving mandrel)! For unfavorable tolerances, the drive shaft must be pressed out of the wheel hub toothing using a suitable wheel hub extractor!
- Do not damage the boots of the ball joints. Push a transport protective cap onto the joint if necessary.