Drive Axle With 100 mm Outer Constant Velocity Joint
Drive Axle with 100 mm Outer Constant Velocity Joint
Outer CV Joint, Removing
- Secure the drive axle with protective covers in a vise.
- Open both clamps and remove the CV joint boot from the outer CV joint.
- Place a copper or brass drift - A - on the CV joint inner race, and strike it with a hammer.
- Remove the CV joint and boot.
- Remove the grease from the outer CV joint, boot and axle shaft.
Outer CV Joint, Installing
- Slide the CV joint boot with the small clamp onto the axle shaft.
CV joints and boots must be free of grease.
1 Circlip (snap ring), must be replaced.
- Position the CV joint boot between the arrows.
- Apply 70 grams of the CV joint grease to the inside of the CV joint.
- Screw the old drive axle bolt into the CV joint as shown in the illustration.
- Drive the CV joint onto the axle shaft with plastic hammer until the circlip engages.
- Insert 50 grams of the drive axle grease into the CV joint on the boot side.
- Grease the outer CV joint. Refer to => [ Grease Quantity and Type ] Drive Axle Assembly Overview.
- Slide the CV joint boot onto the joint.
- Make sure the boot is seated on the joint correctly.
- The CV joint boot must fit in the groove and on the joint contour.
Instructions only apply to stainless steel clamps.
The galvanized clamps for the rubber CV joint boots are clamped using the (VAG 1275).
Tighten the Small and Large Clamps on the Outer CV Joint.
- Use the (VAG 1682) as shown in the illustration. Be sure that the edges of the (VAG 1682) are seated in the corners - arrows B - of the clamp.
- Tension the clamp by turning the spindle with a torque wrench (do not tilt clamp tool).
• Tightening specification: 20 Nm.
• Use a torque wrench with 5 to 50 Nm range (for example, (VAG 1331)).
• Make sure the spindle threads - A - on the (VAG 1682) move freely. Grease with MoS2 grease if necessary.
• If they do not move freely, for example, due to dirt in the threads, the required tension will not be achieved at the specification.