Seating CVs and getting the damn clips to seat? Options

[burlybryan]

Heyo. I'm installing new PMB CV joints and wondered if there is a special trick to seat/compress the inner spring washer enough to get the evil clip to seat on the shaft. I even resorted to using my old inner washer as it was a bit more flattened than the new ones I got with the CV kit. I've moved well past a brass drift and still can't seem to drive it on enough to get it to seat. Using a drift on the clip to drive the assembly on just makes the clip curl and pop off.

Cut/fab a tube to fit over the dia. of the shaft and beat on that?

The kit comes with snap ring clips as well (which are slightly thinner and do fit), but I believe that the hardware kit is universal with 911 driveshafts and those are specific to those.

Thanks for any tips.

[mgphoto]

About a year or so ago, I was helping Steph914 swop out his axles, the new cv joints were not machined correctly and no matter how we tried we couldn’t get the cv to line up with the stub axle and the drive flange. The surface for the balls had machined ridges which made bending the joint impossible.