Contents: Removal 🠛 Installation 🠛
Removal
1. Unscrew the hub nut on the vehicle standing on its wheels.
2. Remove the wheel brake caliper and secure it to the body with wire.
Attention! Do not disconnect the brake fluid hose from the caliper. Otherwise, the brake system will need to be bled after installation.
Caution! The caliper must be secured so that it does not sag and does not stretch or twist the connected brake hose with its weight.
When dismantling the left drive shaft
3. Drain the oil from the gearbox.
4. Unscrew the three bolts 1 securing the inner CV joint cuff to the gearbox (see illustration).
10.4 Unscrew the three bolts 1 securing the inner CV joint cuff to the gearbox
When removing the right drive shaft
5. Knock out the expansion pin at the drive and satellite shaft joint using a 4mm punch (see illustration).
10.5 Knock out the expansion pin at the drive and satellite shaft joint using a 4 mm punch
6. Press out the ball joint pin of the tie rod end from the lever on the steering knuckle, see the corresponding chapter.
7. Unscrew the nuts of the bolts securing the lower part of the shock absorber strut to the steering knuckle and remove the bolts.
8. Secure the drive shaft to the body with wire so that when disconnected, the shaft does not bend and the CV joints are not damaged.
9. Press the drive shaft end out of the hub using a suitable press or mandrel.
10. Push the steering knuckle outwards. The shaft tail will come out of the hole in the gearbox (see illustration). Make sure that the CV joint seals are not damaged when performing this operation.
10.10 Move the steering knuckle outwards. This will cause the shaft tail to come out of the hole in the gearbox
11. Remove the drive shaft from under the engine compartment.
Installation
New drive shafts are supplied with protective boots on the CV joint seals. These protective boots should be left in place until the drive shaft is installed. Even minor damage to the CV joint seal will result in a crack and failure of the CV joint.
12. Insert the left drive shaft CV joint crosspiece into the hole on the gearbox, holding the shaft horizontally.
Right drive shaft
13. Lubricate the splines of the inner CV joint with a thin layer of molybdenum grease, for example, MOLYKOTE BR2.
14. Insert the drive shaft shank into the splines of the gearbox hole, holding the shaft horizontally. At the same time, align the holes of the drive and satellite shafts with a pin bent at an angle.
15. Insert two new expansion pins and drive them in with the appropriate punch (see illustration). After this, seal the holes for the expansion pins with a liquid sealant, such as CAF 4/60 THIXO or CUR1L.
10.15 Insert two new expansion pins and drive them in with a suitable punch
16. Apply LOCTITE SCEBLOC protective grease to the splines of the drive shaft shank, after cleaning and degreasing them, for example, with a rag soaked in alcohol (see illustration).
10.16 Apply LOCTITE SCEBLOC protective grease to the splines of the drive shaft shank, after cleaning and degreasing them, for example, with a rag soaked in alcohol
17. Place the steering knuckle and hub onto the drive shaft end. If necessary, use a suitable drift to pull the end into the hub.
Caution! If you do not have a suitable tool for pulling the tailpiece into the hub, then after the tailpiece has been inserted into the hub hole, pull it in by screwing on the hub nut. Then unscrew the hub nut again and screw it on again, installing a spacer washer. Do not tighten the hub nut completely.
18. Fasten the lower part of the shock absorber strut to the steering knuckle with two bolts. Screw new self-locking nuts onto the bolts and tighten them to 17011 m.
Caution: Bolts must be installed into the holes from front to back with the bolt heads facing the direction of travel.
19. Secure the ball joint pin of the tie rod end to the steering knuckle arm and screw a new self-locking nut onto it, applying a force of 35 Nm.
Left drive shaft
20. Clean the CV joint sealing surface on the gearbox.
21. Fasten the cuff and mounting plate to the gearbox, aligning them horizontally. Tighten the cuff mounting bolts with a force of 25 Nm (see illustration).
10.21 Secure the seal and mounting plate to the gearbox, aligning them horizontally
22. Fill the gearbox with transmission oil.
23. Replace the brake caliper, see the relevant chapter.
24. Install the wheel, following the marks made during removal, and screw in the wheel bolts.
25. Lower the vehicle onto its wheels and tighten the wheel bolts in a cross pattern to 90 Nm.
26. If new drive shafts were installed, remove the protective covers from the CV joint cuffs.
27. Put the transmission in gear, have an assistant hold the brake pedal down and tighten the new hub nut to 250 Nm.