Triple roller joint, disassembling and assembling: Assembling
- 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 as per markings and press in to stop.
- Insert circlip, make sure seated correctly.
- Slide joint over rollers and hold.
- Press the half of joint grease from repair set into triple roller joint.
- Press the other half of joint grease from repair set into the reverse side of the triple roller joint.
- Install joint protective boot.
The ridge in the joint protective boot must seat in the joint groove.
- Now remove axle shaft from vice and tighten joint in vise.
- Insert new seal - arrow - from repair kit into groove.
- Install new cover to joint. Position the plate tabs on the grooved surfaces from joint - arrow -.
The holes of the cover and joint must align.
- Install clamp.
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.