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refreshing cv’s, spider stuck on half shaft |
theleschyouknow |
Feb 26 2020, 02:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 523 Joined: 4-June 13 From: Texas Member No.: 15,967 Region Association: None |
I am cleaning up some axles and re-lubing cv’s
first axle, first cv popped off the half shaft with just a few good tugs per cuddyk’s youtube how to first axle, second cv cannot get the spider and cage off the axle started with tugging and pretty soon the balls and outer cylinder were in my hands but spider and cage still on half shaft moved to hammer & punch working around the back side perimeter of conical washer up against the spider got some movement but slow and seemed to stop with about a 16th of an inch of the half shaft grooves still proud of the outboard side of the spider I was spraying with wd-40 intermittently all the while next borrowed a slide hammer and puller plate from o’reilly maybe got a little more progress but still see grooves proud of the outboard side of the was spider I’ve soaked it over night with wd-40 and will hit it again with the puller/slide hammer this afternoon Any other suggestions? l don’t have a torch here but I’d be hesitant to use one on the spider anyway TIA (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) cjl |
Superhawk996 |
Feb 26 2020, 06:36 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,908 Joined: 25-August 18 From: Woods of N. Idaho Member No.: 22,428 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
If you're a doc or lawyer and your time is worth $200/hr for sure just replace them as recommended. However, if your hobby time, like mine is worth the going rate of $1/hr it might make sense to just work it out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
You've likely got a burr where the Circlip used to be that is catching the axle splines. Push back to original starting postion. Clean up circlip groove with triangle file to make sure you have no burs obscuring the splines where it was hanging up on the 1st try. Try to remove again. As previously suggested, a bit of heat to expand the diameter of the spider while keeping a cool, wet rag wrapped around the axle shaft as close as you can get to the spider without the rag touching the spider. That will help ensure it comes off on the 2nd try. You will have no metalurgical changes to the spider by heating it to 200-300F which will be plenty to increase the ID of the spider by a couple of thousandths relative to the OD of the axle splines to help the two parts to slide relative to each other. |
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