Thread: 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?

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?

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.