CV joints

So it has been a few months since I started worrying about the CV joint cliking away to its own tune. Seeing as how I was taking the car up to Stockton on the weekend I figured it was time to change it.

So I got it off the car no problems. The problem with it seemed to be a crack along the spline and off into the web of one of the ball bearing housings.
The new one I got from Ebay (suzuki super) went in fine right up until it came to putting the circlip on the end of the outer spline...it was too short!!! I thought that it may just need to be pulled out a bit but it would not come far enough, that was with a small slide hammer screwed into the 7/16 hole in the end of the new CV.
The shaft finishes more or less flush with the outer part of the hub so I found a large washer of the right size and bolted it to the end of the shaft to stop it from moving inwards.

Has anyone come across this senario before?

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Originally Posted by Richard93Vogue

So it has been a few months since I started worrying about the CV joint cliking away to its own tune. Seeing as how I was taking the car up to Stockton on the weekend I figured it was time to change it.

So I got it off the car no problems. The problem with it seemed to be a crack along the spline and off into the web of one of the ball bearing housings.
The new one I got from Ebay (suzuki super) went in fine right up until it came to putting the circlip on the end of the outer spline...it was too short!!! I thought that it may just need to be pulled out a bit but it would not come far enough, that was with a small slide hammer screwed into the 7/16 hole in the end of the new CV.
The shaft finishes more or less flush with the outer part of the hub so I found a large washer of the right size and bolted it to the end of the shaft to stop it from moving inwards.

Has anyone come across this senario before?

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You need to get the cvj sticking out proud of the hub to get the circlip on. It sometimes needs a fair bit of force. Get a large socket, bigger then the cvj spline, place on the hub over the end of the cvj and using a long bolt through the socket and into the cvj pull it out a few mms to reveal the locating grove of the circlip.