Well here we go again. Yet another job you can do, if like me you get bored easily. After exploding one of my outer CVs recently, I reached for a spare stub axle only to find it rather worn inside. You can't see in the pic, but the hole in the middle is actually worn oval. The brass (we'll call it that as it has less letters than phosphor bronze alloy or whatever) collar was also spinning round inside the stub axle. No, it's not supposed to.
The CV had broken so violently that it knocked the old stub out of round and mashed the inside up so badly that the brass collar was fubar. OK I still had spares on the shelf, but one thing an another led me to this upgrade. A quick bit of research revealed that this is how the 100 is set up. So clearly Mr T has been thinking.
You need one of these:
One of these if you fancy it; it's an HDK
Some of these genuine parts
You press this into here
and then follow it with this bit
And there you have a super modern needle rollered 80 stub axle. The CV fits much more snugly into the stub than it does with the collar. The collar naturally does the same job in meeting the outer CV face as it spins.
And this does what exactly? Well who gives a sh...? Well it supports the CV much better in terms of it centrality in the stub, there seems very little run out at all when you spin it. In the old set up, the CV end shaft sort of weathervanes round with just the drive flange cap to hold it central meaning that the bell on the CV could, to a degree, wobble around off centre. Hey, how much I dunno, but enough to wear the brass collar. In vehicles with ailing ABS sensors where that movement can cause the dreaded ABS judder, this might be a fix. It may also wobble less on the halfshaft leading to better inner axle oil seal life. OK - so I'm guessing.
I made a puller from scratch which nearly, but not quite, worked. At all, really. Well it shifted the brass bush a bit. I reverted to a round bar shoved in from the other end and a big hammer. It drove out quite easily.
So I shall strip the other side as I have to put a new CV in there on the long side and drop this in to, then pull the short side (again) and upgrade the stub. Perhaps this weekend.
You can buy the new stubs built up from Milner for £97 plus vat or go down this route for around £40 per side.
Thoughts on the matter should be posted to
I have a different view
Oh do you really
Who cares
It's my money
France.
I was bored.
The CV had broken so violently that it knocked the old stub out of round and mashed the inside up so badly that the brass collar was fubar. OK I still had spares on the shelf, but one thing an another led me to this upgrade. A quick bit of research revealed that this is how the 100 is set up. So clearly Mr T has been thinking.
You need one of these:
One of these if you fancy it; it's an HDK
Some of these genuine parts
You press this into here
and then follow it with this bit
And there you have a super modern needle rollered 80 stub axle. The CV fits much more snugly into the stub than it does with the collar. The collar naturally does the same job in meeting the outer CV face as it spins.
And this does what exactly? Well who gives a sh...? Well it supports the CV much better in terms of it centrality in the stub, there seems very little run out at all when you spin it. In the old set up, the CV end shaft sort of weathervanes round with just the drive flange cap to hold it central meaning that the bell on the CV could, to a degree, wobble around off centre. Hey, how much I dunno, but enough to wear the brass collar. In vehicles with ailing ABS sensors where that movement can cause the dreaded ABS judder, this might be a fix. It may also wobble less on the halfshaft leading to better inner axle oil seal life. OK - so I'm guessing.
I made a puller from scratch which nearly, but not quite, worked. At all, really. Well it shifted the brass bush a bit. I reverted to a round bar shoved in from the other end and a big hammer. It drove out quite easily.
So I shall strip the other side as I have to put a new CV in there on the long side and drop this in to, then pull the short side (again) and upgrade the stub. Perhaps this weekend.
You can buy the new stubs built up from Milner for £97 plus vat or go down this route for around £40 per side.
Thoughts on the matter should be posted to
I have a different view
Oh do you really
Who cares
It's my money
France.
I was bored.
