Triple-rotor joint AAR 2900, disassembling and assembling: Assembling
WARNING: This page is about a different variant/trim than selected.
- Slide small clamp for joint protective boot onto shaft.
- Slide joint protective boot onto shaft.
- Slide joint onto shaft.
Assembling triple roller star
The chamfer on tripodic star faces toward shaft, this is used as an assembly aid.
- Install triple roller star onto shaft and press onto stop.
- Make sure that the pressure does not exceed 3.0 t!
- If necessary coat drive shaft splines and triple-roller star with lubricating paste G 052 142 A2 .
- Insert circlip, make sure seated correctly.
- Install rollers onto triple roller star as per markings.
- Slide joint over rollers and hold.
- Press 70 grams of joint grease, from repair set, into triple roller joint.
- Press 70 grams of joint grease, from repair set, into the reverse side of the triple roller joint and protective boot.
- Place seal - 3 - from repair kit in groove - 4 - of triple roller joint.
1 - Circlip
2 - Cover from repair kit
3 - O-ring
4 - Tripod joint
- Insert drive shaft in press.
- Press cover - 1 - into triple roller joint until circlip can be installed.
- Insert circlip, make sure seated correctly.
The circlip must be audibly engaged to locate!
- Install joint protective boot.
- Position the triple roller joint approximately in the middle of the sliding part. See distance between min. and max.
- Hold triple roller joint in this position and lift the boot slightly - arrow -.
- Install clamp.
This allows a possible vacuum inside the boot to escape.
NOTE:
- For a better alignment of the multi-point socket head bolts when mounting the axle shaft, it is necessary that the clamping ear of the clamp - arrow A - is placed between the fixing flanges from the joint - arrow B -.
- Tighten clamp with Hose Clamp Pliers V.A.G 1275.
- Tighten clamp with Hose Clamp Pliers V.A.G 1275.