Axle Shaft Assembly: Description and Operation

GENERAL INFORMATION

The front axle has the following features:

- The wheel bearing is a unit ball bearing (double-row angular contact ball bearing) which incorporates the oil seals and is highly resistant to thrust loads.
- Lead-free grease for the constant velocity joint is adopted.
- Hexavalent chromium is eliminated from the dust cover material.
- The number of parts is reduced by integrating the magnetic encoder for ABS wheel speed detection into the wheel bearing.
[FWD]

- The driveshaft incorporates lightweight and compact EBJ-ETJ type constant velocity joints.
- Dynamic damper is mounted on driveshaft (RH) to reduce differential gear noise.
[AWD]

- The driveshaft incorporates lightweight and compact EBJ-ETJ type constant velocity joints.
- Due to the use of the output shaft, the right and left driveshafts have been approximately the same in length, reducing noise, vibration, and torque steer.

NOTE:

ETJ (High Efficiency Compact Tripod Joint): the lighter and smaller constant velocity joint compared with the conventional TJ has been installed.
EBJ (High Efficiency Compact Birfield Joint): the lighter and smaller constant velocity joint compared with the conventional BJ has been achieved by adopting the eight small balls.


CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAM

[FWD]





[AWD]