Thread: Front drive shaft

Originally Posted by PhilipA

There is a post in What happened to your D2 showing how another bloke did it.
Regards Philip A

This one?

Double Cardan Joint Ball Removal

Originally Posted by PhilipA

There is a post in What happened to your D2 showing how another bloke did it.
Regards Philip A

I just did one on the weekend and i did this
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Took all of 2 minutes
Took longer to get the welder out and set it up

Originally Posted by rangieman

I just did one on the weekend and i did this
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Took all of 2 minutes
Took longer to get the welder out and set it up

I got the ball out easily. The outer race is still in the joint.

Originally Posted by Bohica

I got the ball out easily. The outer race is still in the joint.

The whole thing came out this way

Originally Posted by Bohica

I have managed to remove the centre ball part. The outer part that supports the centre ball is still in. I'm going to try some gentle heat on the out outer part, maybe the outer part will expand enough to remove this outer shell. Short of putting a Dremel onto it which is going to be tricky not to hack up the rest of the joint, I'm not sure what to do in a less destructive manner.
Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Julian

If you have or have access to a mig welder run a light bead around the inside of the outer race , it will then drop out.

Originally Posted by discorevy

If you have or have access to a mig welder run a light bead around the inside of the outer race , it will then drop out.

I mentioned that previously, but for some reason my post is not there

A Defender one was fitted to my D1.

Chris was lucky to get the outer sleeve out with the ball.
Ours also had the ball out but the sleeve stuck hard inside the casing too.
Get a cheapo small wood chisel, and slowly hack at one point making a groove into the outer sleeve(obviously not the case).
Chisel will get a pounding and may end up being throw away, unless you're good a regrinding it back.

Took about 10mins of gentle massacring the sleeve. Note that it didn't actually cut right through the sleeve, just enough to make it softy-bendy with a bit of a warp in it to finally get a grip and pull it out with a pair of multigrips.
No damage to casing.