GORILLARILLA21` Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Alrighty so months ago, I got my cv axle kit from a guy on ebay. Long story short, I put them together, and there's no movement. It literally is like a dumbbell.. But when the ball bearings, cage, and bearing hub are all together outside of the cv housing, it moves perfectly fine. But when I go to put the assembly into the cv housing, I can't even budge it a little.... I don't see any marks to align to make sure its in correctly... I can get it in pretty damn smooth but after that, it freezes up once everything it put together.. any ideas? When I put it in, it goes straight down, then has to flip over, so the ball bearings will fit nicely.. Is that where I went wrong?.. Help me before I paint the entire floor in this damn grease :w00t: Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Not sure about your 510, but on the early 240Z the bible was the remove, clean, and replace the ball bearings with a bit of grease in the slots so that the balls location would survive the reassembly chore. Does this make sense in your situation? Quote Link to comment
GORILLARILLA21` Posted April 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 As you can see, I made the indents on the middle hub and the indents on the cv outter housing line up the same. On the middle hub and the cv housing, it has 3 big sides, and I lined those up as well. As you can see in the pics below, the assembly has easy movement when it isn't inside the cv housing. once it gets put in, I can't move it at all... Quote Link to comment
thisismatt Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Hard to tell from the pictures, but could you have that retainer ring clocked one position off? Quote Link to comment
GORILLARILLA21` Posted April 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 They look kind of off, but when I place them in, they fit in easily. Once they are on there, they dont budge. It's like they completely freeze up. Quote Link to comment
thisismatt Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 That doesn't really answer my question, though. From the pictures it looks like that thin ring needs to rotate one ball in either direction. Quote Link to comment
GORILLARILLA21` Posted April 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 what ring, the cage? Quote Link to comment
GORILLARILLA21` Posted April 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 If anything, I would think that the bearing hub needs to be moved since that is the slotted part, and the cage just holds the ball bearings. Quote Link to comment
thisismatt Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Are the holes/slots in the cage equally spaced, I guess that's my question. Or are they unequally spaced and need to line up with the unequally spaced bearings? Quote Link to comment
thisismatt Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 So, looking around I saw a cv rebuild article, and it appears that the wide section of the inner hub should NOT be lined up with the wide section of the outer body. Quote Link to comment
GORILLARILLA21` Posted April 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 You sir, are the man. I really appreciate it! Quote Link to comment
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