Thread: Front drive shaft

Originally Posted by fourteen8

Got tom woods shaft. Question: is the grease for the uj and shaft the same? Thanks.

Of course

Originally Posted by AK83

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.

In my opinion luck did not have anything to do with it

Had a lot to do with the welding heat transfer that helped thing`s shrink and free up also the way it pulled out via a straight pull
If anyone has a dead shaft and want this done im happy to be proved wrong
Hell bring two over and we will go for best of of three successful attempt`s

Originally Posted by rangieman

In my opinion luck did not have anything to do with it

Had a lot to do with the welding heat transfer that helped thing`s free up also the way it pulled out via a straight pull
If anyone has a dead shaft and want this done im happy to be proved wrong
Hell bring two over and we will go for best of of three successful attempt`s

Ill trying the oven on mine.

Originally Posted by Bohica

Ill trying the oven on mine.

Good luck with the roasties

Originally Posted by rangieman

Good luck with the roasties

Well that did not work. I have amate who has a mig welder and a Dremel. He is quite a craftsman. I still dont understand why heating it up makes the inner race drop out. It will expand and bind tighter.

Originally Posted by Bohica

Up and down groove? Parallel to the three grooves in the race?

With the chisel, you create a groove in the inside of the outer sleeve. Once you have started forming this groove just keep hacking along that groove. it eventually weakens the sleeve to be able to bend it just enough to weaken the hold between the case and the sleeve.

if you have a mate with a dremel .. even better .. just hack at it with the dremel instead of the chisel.

I gave my dremel(knock off) to my brother, and if he had brought it with him, we'd sure have preferred to use that instead of the chisel.

If you do get a dremel, cut the sleeve at about 45° to vertical, like I said, you don't need to hack it right through the metal.. just a 2mm cut into the metal is more than enough to soften some part of it and then easy(ish) to bend it from there and pull it.

Originally Posted by Bohica

Well that did not work. I have amate who has a mig welder and a Dremel. He is quite a craftsman. I still dont understand why heating it up makes the inner race drop out. It will expand and bind tighter.

No it does work the problem with your method is you heated the whole unit so it all heated up and expanded and shrunk together .

Here watch this not the best vid

Originally Posted by rangieman

No it does work the problem with your method is you heated the whole unit so it all heated up and expanded and shrunk together .

Here watch this not the best vid

He must have used a whole roll of mig wire on that one, I didn't he was ever going to stop!. then a bash on the new bering with a mallet, a press would have been a better option on that one. LOL