How do I remove env rear axles

[oliver1981]

Hi all,

Wanting to remove env axles and check wheel bearings b4 3 week trip to west coast tasmania. Is it just undoing bolts on face or do i need to release clip under cap?

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Hi all,

Wanting to remove env axles and check wheel bearings b4 3 week trip to west coast tasmania. Is it just undoing bolts on face or do i need to release clip under cap?Oliver

You can check wheel bearings with the halfshaft in-place. Remove the metal cap.
release and remove the circlip from the end of the halfshaft.
undo the 6 bolts on the drive flange and remove it off the end of the halfshaft.
You can not remove the ENV halfshaft/s without removing the stub axle/s first.Hope this helps.
Diana

[oliver1981]

Thanks diana.

I assume then that once drive flange removed. Axles will slide out?

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Thanks diana.

I assume then that once drive flange removed. Axles will slide out?No

The axle halfshafts WILL NOT slide out!

The ENV spline is larger than the hole through the stub axle.

You can service the hubs and bearings with the halfshaft in place, once the drive flange is removed from the hub and halfshaft.

[101RRS]

The axle halfshafts WILL NOT slide out!

The ENV spline is larger than the hole through the stub axle.

Typical british design - do things the hard way.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Typical british design - do things the hard way.No engineering a fix on the cheap. The ENV diffs were used in things like Morris Commercial, so were an available diff that were stronger than the Rover diff option of the day. They merely fitted the diff into the existing engineering using the standard Land Rover hubs and stub axles.

The ENV was then replaced with a proper engineering solution when they got the licence to produce the Dana diff under Salisbury manufacturing.